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

This project can be done by children of any age. 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. We want you to find something that fascinates or interests you near your home and to do a drawing or painting of that thing. It might be a building, a landscape, a tree or a piece of nature. There are only two rules. The first is that it must be within one mile of the home in which you live. The second rule is that the subject of your drawing must be outside, not in a building. Maybe it is something you pass on your way to school, to the shops, to a playground or maybe something in that playground. You could take a photo of it and then draw or paint it from that photo.

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.