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Inspirational Ideas

A little inspiration for your next creative adventure. Craft ideas, family fun and stories from our community.

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Free, fun and creative things to do for kids!

Download our FREE Shape Mates sheets and let your child's imagination run wild!

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What is the greatest gift you can give your child?

Parenting is a tough job. To help guide you through knowing how best to support your child, The Creation Station is delighted to share top tips an practical advice from ITV This Morning's parenting expert and parenting coach Sue Atkins.

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Creation Station Teams Up With Florida4Less To Provide Family Focussed Events

When working with The Creation Station team, as well as running the activities for you, we help to attract new customers to your events Read how Floida4less engaged local kids and families with flight inspired fun.

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How to help your child develop their reading, writing and numeracy skills.

Supporting your child with fun creative activities can help to develop their essential early year's skills. Exploring shapes builds your child's knowledge and confidence to help with verbal communication, logic skills and practice with numbers and letters.

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How do creative activities benefit my child

Creative activities can help your child's development by supporting their social, emotional, physical, cognitive and wellbeing needs.

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If I knew what I know now, I would have launched my own Creation Station much sooner.

Inspiring the nations imaginations is at the heart of all we do here at Creation Station. We are fortunate to work with a fantastic family of our lovely Franchise owners.

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How to paint dot an Easter egg #MakeItMonday

Check out how to decorate an egg in a unique way in our new #MakeItMonday video. It's so easy to do and you will love the end result as well the process of dot painting an egg.

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Cbeebies My First Painting filmed with The Creation Station

We were delighted to be approached to work with MCC Media to help with their TV Show My First which is broadcast on CBeebies. The show named My First Painting is on Wednesday the 28th of March 2018 at 5:35pm #myfirstCBeebies

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How to marble eggs #MakeItMonday

Easter is upon us and with this fun craft activity you can create an Easter centrepiece for your table and everyone can get involved in the making.

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Mother's Day brought to you by The Creation Station + FREE Best Mum certificate

Download your FREE Best Mum certificate and check out The Creation Station bringing you joy and capturing little smiles by creating treasured keepsakes for Mums, Nans, Aunties, Sisters or just friends this Mother's Day all over the country.

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5 ways to promote mental wellbeing in our children

Great advice for dealing with your children's tough times and top tips to encourage mental wellbeing.

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What do toddlers, kids, families, students, adults and senior citizens have in common?

What do toddlers, kids, families, students, adults and senior citizens have in common? All are involved in The Creation Station classes, parties and events running across the U.K. Read more to find out more about the range of creative activities happening in your local area.

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How To Make A Children’s Clay Character #MakeItMonday

Get creative with this fun modelling children's craft activity.

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How to help your kids love vegetables #MakeItMonday

Check out this easy to do craft activity that will help your child explore the world of 'greens' and vegetables through arts and crafts. Brought to you by award-winning Creation Station.

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BBC Report on Squeeze On Creativity - What Will This Mean For Your Children?

The BBC recently reported that creative subjects are being squeezed in schools. A creative approach and activities enables more engagement which leads to ownership of learning. This helps develop a love of learning and the ability to think for oneself. Being different becomes more acceptable. Imagine if we pursued this line of thought further… the positive impact of accepting our differences coul

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Top 100 Franchises In The UK Announced

News of the Top 100 franchises in the UK across all sectors. We are thrilled that Creation Station is number 16. It’s wonderful that creativity is featuring so highly as it really does make a difference to so many lives.

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Creativity is more important than knowledge’ Albert Einstein

Nurturing creativity is much more than just teaching someone how to draw a horse. A creative process develops a wide range of essential life skills. The Creation Station award-winning programme of classes helps each child to explore discover and develop by sparking their natural curiosity and helping each child to blossom.

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How to create your own Children's Craft Wind Dragon

How to make children's craft wind dragon.

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Christmas Template | The Creation Station

Have a fantastic Christmas with lots of family fun!   Become a follower of our blog for more exciting activity ideas to do at home. We would love to see your Christmas pictures, so please send photos of them to art@thecreationstation.co.uk or share with us on twitter with #creationstation.

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How To Make A Fun Low Cost Festival Headband

Create your own Children's Winter Christmas Mobile

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How To Make A Children's Winter Mobile

Create your own Children's Winter Christmas Mobile

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The Creation Station - Wins the Best Franchise Award in the Children's Service Category at the Smith and Henderson Best Franchise Awards 2017

The Creation Station scoops the top award in the Smith & Henderson Best Children's Services Category at the Best Franchise Awards 2017. The award is based on franchise satisfaction scoring. The Creation Station gained a 5-Star rating and went on to win out of twenty other businesses in this sector.

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Pudsey Workshops in your area!

Book today and explore a world of textures with your little one and the whole family this autumn for BBC Children in Need

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The Creation Station Franchise is rated 5-Star by Franchise owners and is a Finalist for the Best Franchise in Children Services

The Creation Station franchise is rated 5 -Star in an independent smith+henderson satisfaction survey by franchise owners. The results have positioned them as finalists for Children's Services in the 2017 Best Franchise Awards sponsored by Lloyds Bank. Winners of the 2017 Best Franchise Awards will be announced during the Best Franchise Conference in Milton Keynes on Thursday 30th November 201

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