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Summer Sparks

Summer Sparks: Creative Painting
Free
A colorful watercolor painting on paper shows five white-petaled flowers with yellow centers under a bright yellow sun in a blue sky. The flowers have tall green stems, and the background includes broad blue brushstrokes. The painting rests on sheets of newspaper on a table, with a child’s hand partially visible in the bottom corner.

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Summer Sparks: Creative Painting

28 Jul 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Graffiti Drawing
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A table covered with brightly colored graffiti-style name art. Each paper displays a different name—“LEX,” “IZZY,” “FRED,” “CHLOE,” and “KIKI”—drawn in bold block letters and surrounded by hearts, stars, and other vibrant doodles using markers.

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Summer Sparks: Graffiti Drawing

30 Jul 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Discovering Art/Collage
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A person sits at a wooden table making art. They draw with an orange crayon on brown paper, making wavy lines and patterns. On the table is a colorful paper cutout shaped like a curled-up lizard. The cutout has many bright patterns including stripes, dots, circles, and swirls in blue, green, purple, orange, and other colours. Coloured markers are lined up on the left side of the table. There are also green paper pieces nearby. The person wears a dark blue shirt.

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Summer Sparks: Discovering Art/Collage

05 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Film Making Skills
Free
A smiling child holds a large professional video camera indoors while an adult stands beside them, helping adjust equipment. The setting is a modern room with grey carpet, a wall-mounted TV, and filmmaking gear scattered around, including a tripod and microphone.

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Summer Sparks: Film Making Skills

06 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Exploring Music
Free
A child in a yellow gingham dress is standing at a table with musical instruments, holding a blue percussion stick. On the table are a red ukulele, green maracas, jingle sticks, a blue egg shaker, and a black bag with a white octopus design.

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Summer Sparks: Exploring Music

11 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Jewellery Making
Free
Two images sat side by side. The one on the left shows a handmade necklace made with multi-coloured beads of different sizes and patterns sat on a camouflage t-shirt. The one on the right shows a child's hand and wrist held out to display two bracelets made up of different coloured, sized and shaped beads.

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Summer Sparks: Jewellery Making

13 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Jewellery Making
Free
Two images sat side by side. The one on the left shows a handmade necklace made with multi-coloured beads of different sizes and patterns sat on a camouflage t-shirt. The one on the right shows a child's hand and wrist held out to display two bracelets made up of different coloured, sized and shaped beads.

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Summer Sparks: Jewellery Making

14 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Creative Painting
Free
A colorful watercolor painting on paper shows five white-petaled flowers with yellow centers under a bright yellow sun in a blue sky. The flowers have tall green stems, and the background includes broad blue brushstrokes. The painting rests on sheets of newspaper on a table, with a child’s hand partially visible in the bottom corner.

Children and Young People's Activities

Summer Sparks: Creative Painting

18 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Discovering Art/Collage
Free
A person sits at a wooden table making art. They draw with an orange crayon on brown paper, making wavy lines and patterns. On the table is a colorful paper cutout shaped like a curled-up lizard. The cutout has many bright patterns including stripes, dots, circles, and swirls in blue, green, purple, orange, and other colours. Coloured markers are lined up on the left side of the table. There are also green paper pieces nearby. The person wears a dark blue shirt.

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Summer Sparks: Discovering Art/Collage

19 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Animation
Free
A close-up of a tablet on a stand, showing a stop-motion animation in progress. The tablet screen displays a colourful drawing of a rocket ship surrounded by stars and planets, with an orange flame coming from the bottom of the rocket. A person's hand is visible, placing or adjusting a paper cutout of the flame on the drawing. The physical drawings lay beneath the tablet, and small additional cutouts are scattered around the scene.

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Summer Sparks: Animation

21 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Film Making Skills
Free
A smiling child holds a large professional video camera indoors while an adult stands beside them, helping adjust equipment. The setting is a modern room with grey carpet, a wall-mounted TV, and filmmaking gear scattered around, including a tripod and microphone.

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Summer Sparks: Film Making Skills

26 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks: Intro to Film Making
Free
A smiling child holds a large professional video camera indoors while an adult stands beside them, helping adjust equipment. The setting is a modern room with grey carpet, a wall-mounted TV, and filmmaking gear scattered around, including a tripod and microphone.

Children and Young People's Activities

Summer Sparks: Intro to Film Making

28 Aug 2025

7-12

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Summer Sparks

Our free Summer Sparks activities are part of Culture Start – an exciting programme designed to help children and young people in Sunderland take part in free creative and cultural events.

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