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Christmas Resource Boxes

Christmas Resource Boxes

Festive Educational Content from WMG Outreach.

Register Interest

You can register your interest in receiving a Christmas resource box from WMG Outreach in late November 2024 using this Register Interest form.

A pop up card designed and made by a primary student to celebrate Christmas. It shows three boxes popping up out of the card as if they were stacked up.

Paper Engineering:

Design your own Pop-up Card

How can we turn a lowly piece of paper into something dramatic, 3D, and exciting? We can use engineering design principles to create scenes hidden inside cards that are revealed as they are opened. Find out how to create your own pop up cards with our Paper Engineering resource box.

See our Paper Engineering page.

Who can get a box?

WMG Outreach produce roughly 50 of each of our two resource boxes each year to send out to local schools and community groups. There is always more interest than we are able to satisfy so unfortunately we do need to prioritise who we send the boxes to.

To make sure that no one misses out, all of our resources are shared on the website for you to download and print for yourself.

We prioritise groups in the following ways:

  • Schools that we have an existing relationship with through the University's Widening Participation team.
  • Schools that have a higher than average (for the West Midlands) percentage of students in receipt of Free School Meals.
  • Primary schools that feed into a Secondary school with whom we have an existing relationship (e.g. LBEEP or Experience Warwick).
  • Community groups that are local to the University of Warwick.
  • Community groups that are supported by University of Warwick staff.

Click on one of the boxes to find out more and register your interest.

A row of paper lanterns that have been folded out of flat sheets of paper. They are all in bright colours following the rainbow.

Flatpack Materials:

Create a 3D object from flat materials and design a Festive scene

Most products you can buy from the shop are packaged in a way to make their transport more efficient. It means many of us have battled with a screwdriver to get a new bookshelf! Why do engineers flatpack things? How can we design things to fit neatly into a box? And more importantly - how can we turn flat sheets of material into exciting 3D shapes?

Find out how to turn pieces of paper into 3D objects with our Flatpack resources.

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Enter our competitionLink opens in a new window

Display creatively your class work and take a picture that you can submit here to enter our Christmas boxes competition. The deadline to enter your class is Thursday 19th December. We will review all entries in the New Year and publish all of them on our social media (please ensure there are no children on the pictures). We will announce the winner on 15th January on our website and social media and contact them to arrange a special visit from WMG to their school in 2025!