LEARNING AT HOME
Easter Activities at Home
Here at SGM we have created some activities inspired by Easter and our collection for young people to engage with at home. Click on the link below to access the activities to print off at home.

We have also teamed up with Ely Cathedral where this Easter you can book Easter Activity Packs from them. Inside these packs as well as host of other fun things you will find hard copies of these activities. To book your pack click here
Easter Activities at Home Worksheets (PDF)
Windows for Hope
Have you noticed rainbows popping up in windows where you live?

Here in the UK, schools closed before Easter and the country entered lockdown. Many teachers encouraged children to make a rainbow on their last day, to take it home and hang it in their window as a symbol of hope. At a time when to care for others so often means keeping our distance from them, when our usual means of connection have been necessarily cut, and when physical isolation makes us so keenly aware of our need to be together, windows are being used to communicate solidarity. I've seen rainbows in paint, pen, chalk, paper scraps and Lego. Online, we've seen rainbow pictures in the windows of Italy, Spain, New York, Australia...
The history of stained glass is one of story-telling, of communicating through illuminated pictures and symbols what words could not, and of framing all of this within windows. When times are hard, the stories we tell and the creativity with which we tell them are more important than ever. To use our windows as galleries that our daily-allowed walks can thread together into poems of hope, seems beautiful and necessary and an interesting continuation of a long tradition.
CRAFTS
Magical Cloak Scratch Art

Harry Clarke created these twinkling colours by using a process called Acid Etching. A thin sheet of coloured glass is layered upon clear glass to make a material known as Flashed Glass. Acid is then used to eat into the coloured layer(s), producing variations in tone and shade.
At home, we used Harry Clarke's window and technique as inspiration for our own art works, scratching magical cloaks for mysterious figures.
Magical Scratch Art - Step-by-step instructions (PDF)
Melted Wax Pictures

Melted Wax Pictures - Step-by-step instructions (PDF)
Tissue Paper Windows

Illuminated Tissue Paper Windows - Step-by-step instructions (PDF)
Roundels

Roundels - Step-by-step instructions (PDF)
What's On for Families at The Stained Glass Museum

Family fun at The Stained Glass Museum
Children's Glass Fusing
The Stained Glass Museum runs glass fusing workshops for children at two levels. Level 1 is designed for beginners, and Level 2 for those who would like to develop their glass fusing skills.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
SGMinis
Our SGMinis sessions are held monthly for under 5's, their older siblings and parents/carers. Each 1.5 hour drop-in session (10:30am-12:00pm) has a different theme and includes a themed story and craft session, as well as creative play.
Upcoming SGMinis sessions
Family Mailing List
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