Arty Afternoons

Make a tiny sketchbook with the Penlee House team. Then explore our wonderful archaeology and social history museum galleries and sketch your favourite artefacts on display.

Get creative by drawing your own portrait on tracing paper, then transfer each facial feature onto colourful card and paper. Finally, cut out and collage your pieces together to make a bright and cheerful portrait masterpiece to take home.

Imagine yourself in the shoes of the people in the portraits and draw yourself into one of the famous Newlyn School paintings.

Try making your own Victorian-style silhouette artwork.

Use different materials to colourise the brilliant photos of local life in West Cornwall in the 1940s and 50s.

Bring history into the present and update the people in the images by dressing them in modern clothes and giving them more modern accessories. You could swap a mirror for a mobile phone or a traditional Victorian outfit for a football kit!

Make a paper chain of all the people you spot and decorate their clothes and special features to show who they are or what they are doing in the pictures.

Draw your own Newlyn Copper design inspired by the sea and make it into a badge to wear at home.

Create a paper mix and match book, where you can muddle up what people are wearing!

Zoom in on the details and draw new artworks based on what you can see inside your viewfinder, but on a bigger scale!

Create a fuzzy felt face shaped board and add in different eyes, ears, noses and other facial features!