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9 April 2020

Amazing artists from across the country are making fantastic resources available to help you be creative while you're stuck at home. Here's some top recommendations, to suit the young and the young at heart, which we've put together with help from our friends at .

Sadler’s Wells is creating a series of online workshops and activities for audiences to dance along to in their own homes.

is specially created for over 60s who may be staying at home due to social distancing, with a new film scheduled to be released every Wednesday.

And at the other end of the spectrum, the have been specially created for families with younger children now unable to attend nursery or school.

Firstsite have made a collection of. These feature contributions from UK artists including Annie Morris, Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing, Grayson Perry, Harold Offeh, Idris Kahn, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Ryan Gander and Vanley Burke.

Anyone can have a go and no specialist materials required, you just need to .

Company Three is an award-winning company of 75 young people aged 11-19 in Islington, North London. Their members are currently creating a to document teenagers’ experiences during the global coronavirus pandemic and shutdown.

If you'd like to make your own time capsule during this time, they've made .

One of Britain's leading artists, Sir Michael Craig-Martin, has designed this poster which you can download. Adults and children alike can take pleasure in colouring in and then displaying as an appreciative show of support to the selfless work of NHS staff.

Artist Pascal Anson, who you might know as a mentor on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s The Big Painting Challenge, is streaming tutorials on his . He's covered a range of styles so far, including portraiture, landscapes and still life.

He told ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arts: "While I can’t help with the medical aspect of the crisis, I hope that by igniting peoples’ creativity I can help with the boredom of staying at home.

"This is not a particularly imaginative time for me as an artist, but I’m in full problem solving mode, so I set up a TV studio in my kitchen and started to run art classes."

Manchester Museums are providing creative and fun activities and workshop ideas for carers that can be completed at home. They will be adding to this over the coming weeks, with resources like this which is designed to work in settings ranging from home to hospital or care centres.