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Blue Photo Adventure Group booking- This summer only!

Group craft cyanotype with wooden and twine hanging mount

Looking for a fun activity for your group this summer? I’m Dr Diana Powell and I run UK Unplugged, which helps families unplug from screens and explore together. I’ve put together a Blue Photo Adventure experience for Merseyside* groups that focuses on history, science and crafts and is fun for a range of ages. I […]

Japan Box: Ellen’s take on the exciting experience of co-creating hanafuda cards

Ellen playing Hanafuda with Kanae. We used these to model our own set for the Japan Box

I’m Ellen, one of the Creative Education Assistants from the University of Liverpool and I worked with Kanae, Keris, Diana and Andy on the development of the exciting new Japan Box (8+) and the upcoming event on Sunday 18th February 2024! I’d like to share some of what I learnt about hanafuda ‘flower cards’ (花札), […]

Boxes for the CAMHS Wait List

Deliveries for the CAMHS wait list

We began our deliveries for the local CAMHS waiting list on Friday. Children and young people recommended by their Care Navigator were able to choose which box they wanted (in this case Dinos Roar? and Day of the Dead) and we delivered them by ecargo bike to the families.   Why? Children and young people […]

Were in the News! BBC Radio Merseyside and Wirral Globe

Diana smiles with David North in front of a BBC radio Merseyside sign

We’ve been busy chatting about our new products in the Wirral Globe and on BBC Radio Merseyside. We just launched our Victorian Christmas Spirit Box…our subscription is almost ready, and we have several Christmas events coming up! Exciting times! If you’d like to read the article about us: Wirral Globe Article Or catch up with […]

Day of the Dead Fun this Half Term

Day of the Dead Event

Are you ready for a fiesta that involves skulls and spirit animals? We are! This half-term join us at the Bloom Building and Coffee Culture, coffee and crafting Mexican games and a dance 2 hours of screenfree fun! #SENDCO support and a sensory room! Day of the Dead tickets: https://wirralunplugged.org/shop/ If you’re in #Liverpool, we’ll […]

Free Space Competition week 4: Astronaut Food

Astronaut Food- this week's competition purple moonpies, pink pizza and cake

WEEK 4 OF OUR SUMMER OF SPACE competition has landed! This week we want you to explore the world of astronaut food, you could: Create a dish for an alien Make food for an astronaut (maybe try find a solution so it doesn’t float away in space!) Or create a dish that resembles something you […]

Free Competition! Summer of SPACE 6-Week Challenge

Summer of Space Competition Dress to Impress, challenge week 3

This week it’s all about looking the part! Space boots, check, astronaut suit, check, space earrings? … Go where your imagination takes you into hats, masks, socks… It’s free to enter- just email or PM/DM your entry to us. Free to anyone 16 and under in the UK. Deadline for entries is 9am on Friday! […]

Bike Realities & Boxes: Crowdfunder Update & Stretch for Boxes

Mother and child working together on Space Box content

We’ve done it! We’ve smashed our target with a few hours to spare! Thank you–it really means a lot that you believe in what we do and want to help out. We’ve put a ‘stretch’ target for the last day to raise funding for free boxes for those on the CAMHS waiting list: approximately 125 […]