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A PDF version of the instructions, suitable for printing out, is here

We suggest this project is done by children above age 8 and under the age of 15. It can be done either from home or in school.

Paper, pens, paints, crayons or pencils. You may need a scanner or camera so you can upload it to your school's website.

You can do this project in any format you like. It could be a drawing or a painting. What we want is two different pictures, side by side or one above the other, on the same sheet of paper, which depict you, now, and you in 20 years time. If you are a fantastic artist, you might feel able to draw two portraits. The first would be, in effect, a selfie (but you can't take a photo) and the other would be how you see yourself in those 20 years. If you are not that artistic, then just draw some of the things that you have around you now and then, for the other picture, those things you think you might have in 20 years time.

Once you have decided on the content of your picture, decide how you are going to show it. Are you going to draw them, paint them or have you got access to a computer drawing package? The decision is yours.

Next you can begin to produce your picture.

If you are doing this project on your own at home, you can email a copy of the finished project to us and it may find its way on to our site. Send it to homeprojectsd@owlbut.co.uk That would be owlingly brilliant. Off you go.

We are asking schools to set up a special part of their school website called Owlbut's World of Learning and all work done by pupils should be uploaded there. Each project, if you decide to do more than one, should have a separate section. Send the link to drawingprojects@owlbut.co.uk.