Drawing from descriptions

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Encourage your pupils to develop their literacy and art skills with our drawing from descriptions activity.

Download our pen portraits of historical staff and top tips for drawing faces below.

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Have a go at making your own collection of origami boats.

Make an animated film recreating the time a bus jumped over an opening Tower Bridge in 1952.

Have a go at creating your own moving Tower Bridge picture.

Learn how to send messages using a system of arm signals.

Download our Tower Bridge-themed scavenger hunt pack, which includes five activities for you to complete wherever you are.

Create your own comic strip by making up a story or using some amazing tales of Tower Bridge.