The Arts

Curriculum· — Some of the earliest novels were written in the form of letters between characters. Try writing a story as a series of text messages, group chats, emails, letters or postcards...

Curriculum· — Look to your immediate left or right and draw what you see using an art technique you’ve never used before. Could be stippling, cross-hatching, sgraffito, cross counter, etc. Get creative!

Curriculum· — An update from our eleventh Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all...

Curriculum· — Put some objects in front of a sunny window and draw the shadows they make (if it’s not a sunny day, put your objects in front of a wall and...

Curriculum· — If you could live in any kind of habitation, with everything exactly the way you wanted it, what would it be like? Where would it be? Maybe it’s a cave,...

Curriculum· — Recently Stone Soup blogger and book reviewer Madeline Sornson had the opportunity to read The History Keepers by Damian Dibben, and ask the author some questions about the book, research,...

Blog Post· — You can’t love a piece of art and not look at it just one time. It is impossible and it shows you really have no care for the art. “Garden...

Curriculum· — Make a “blind contour” self portrait. A blind contour is a drawing where you do not look at the paper while you are drawing, and once you have put your...

Editorial· — Latest Fashion–the Mask NATYA CHANDRASEKAR, 12 Being a young girl, fashion is something that I think about all the time and I saw how people were obsessed with the kind...

Writing Workshop· — For the ninth workshop in our first ever season of Stone Soup Writing Workshops, we decided to devote the whole session to readings by our participants. Everyone chose their favourite...