Activities to support your visit to the Classic Boat Museum
There are lots of resources available to support your visit to the Classic Boat Museum. These include videos and activity sheets with lots of fun and creative ideas to extend learning opportunities either before or after a visit.
Activity Sheets
Top Treasure Activities
Discover some of the Island’s top historical treasures which are in the care of our museums with these activities.
Storytelling Activities
Commissioned from local storyteller Sue Bailey, this activity sheet is packed with creative ideas to inspire activities in the classroom, at our museums and beyond. The activities have been designed to support Arts Award Explore but can readily be adapted for other levels or used to inspire fun activities undertaken without formal Arts Award assessment.
Drawing Activity
Designed by local artist Adam Gaterell, this drawing activity sheet is packed with ideas to inspire your students during a visit to the Classic Boat Museum.
Arts Award Activities
Developed by the Museums and Schools partnership to support Arts Award Explore, these activity sheets include lots of creative activity ideas anyone can use.
Artist-Led Activity Videos
Hammerhead Crane Painting Video
Artist Ian Whitmore creates a painting inspired by the hammerhead crane in Cowes, the only surviving one of its type in England.
Download the accompanying instructions and template.
Origami Boats Video
Artist Ian Whitmore demonstrates how to make your own origami boat.
Download the accompanying instructions and diagram.
Dazzle Camouflage Video
Find out more about the camouflage Dazzle that was used to disguise ships in World War Two with artist Ian Whitmore.
Download the accompanying instructions and template.
Parachutes of Hope: a mandala activity
Take inspiration from the Airborne Lifeboat designed by Uffa Fox in about 1943 to design a colourful circular mandala using symbols and colours that inspire and represent our hopes and dreams in this activity created by artist Jenna Sabine.
Download the accompanying description, template and curriculum links and further ideas.