Competition: create a mini wall painting for your chance to win a £100 goody bag!
Learn all about the priceless wall paintings in churches and castles around the country, then use our template to create your very own mini wall paintings!
Things to make and do
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Create your own art masterpieces
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Make your own Roman dodecahedron
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MAKE YOUR OWN ROMAN TABULA
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Design your own Roman mosaic
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Plant a mini monastic herb garden
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Design your own illuminated initials
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Design your own coat of arms
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Design a Great Tower
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Build a cardboard castle
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Make your own clay dragon
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Build a model Tudor house
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Design a Stuart newspaper
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Make a Victorian Toy Theatre
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Create Jacobean Dress Up Dolls
Step into the past with these cool dress-up ideas!
Discover our sites with these downloadable Spotter's Guides!
Download our fun spotter's guides and head out to your nearest English Heritage site to start exploring!
Learn to draw with Kids Rule! illustrator Wesley Robbins
Calling all aspiring artists! Join Wesley Robins, illustrator of English Heritage Kids Rule! magazine, for a series of fun draw-along art tutorials.
In these easy to follow videos, Wesley will explain step-by-step how to draw famous historical figures – so grab some paper and a pencil or pen and get ready to draw along with him!
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Learn to draw Emperor Hadrian
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Learn to draw William the Conqueror
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Learn to draw Anglo-Saxon and Viking warriors
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Learn to draw Henry VIII
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Learn to draw Elizabeth I
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Learn to draw Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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Learn to draw Charles Darwin
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Learn to draw Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
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Learn to draw St George and the dragon
Make a felt dragon
Learn how to craft your very own ferocious yet adorable felt dragon! Download the pattern via the button below, and follow the step-by-step instructions to make your creature.
Make your dragon!Games to make and play
Download these games and get ready to challenge your family and friends. Who will be victorious?
Build your own street of history!
Make our series of homes through history to create your own historical street model. From a prehistoric roundhouse to grand London residences, you'd find all kinds of people living in these homes in the past. Once you have completed your houses, assemble them all to create an imaginary street!
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Make a model Bronze Age roundhouse
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Make a model Roman Prefect's house
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Make a model Saxon Thegn's house
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Make a model of Henry II's Great Tower at Dover Castle
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Make a model of the South Tower at Stokesay Castle
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Make a model of the Gatehouse at Cleeve Abbey
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Make a model of a Monk's cell
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Make a model of St Mawes Castle
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Make a model of Boscobel House
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Build a model of Marble Hill
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Make a model of Apsley House
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Make a model of Stott Park Bobbin Mill