There was widespread sadness at last year's death of the TV presenter Tony Hart. His programmes such as Take Hart inspired generations of young people to explore their creativity and along the way gave inspiration to youth workers and teachers.
Part of his legacy are programmes such as Art Attack, and the programme's website www.artattack.co.uk is jam-packed with well-illustrated creative ideas for young people. These range from specific tips in drawing and painting — such as rendering impressive cloudscapes or drawing glasses on faces - to craft projects such as making a model garden. While some of these are most suited to the younger end of the youth work age range, many ideas could be used for brightening up your youth centre or to add to consultation projects such as "create your own ideal Myplace centre". There are several hundred projects that can be printed off — a favourite in the Youth Work Now office was the homage to Picasso achieved with an empty box of teabags and some kitchen roll. Rainy residential weekends may never be the same.
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