The Smudge Hub Library

A giant cardboard cathedral for collaborative mosaic play.

An ode to the sun, with colour popping against a dark base.

A behind the scenes Smudge build for the grown ups.

Tiny architectural worlds built in layers.

Colour, reflection, and a gorgeous excuse for self portraits.

Layering colour, texture and instinct onto wood.

Looking closely and letting yellow take the lead!

A brush full of possibility!

A warm, lovely place to play.

Light, balance, and a really good reason to go thrifting!

Paint and Cut and Layer

Warm your days with moving colour.

Art Made with the Sun

Turn everyday shells into shimmering treasures.

Bold colours and textured strands

Cut, layer, style, repeat.

Layers on layers of yum!

A colourful field of circles!

Start with a blank white space and let dot stickers slowly take it over!

Big colour, bold marks, and a reef that glows like Ken Done.

Mini scenes with maximum glow!

Big impact with big, big joy!

Pure sensory joy, straight from a can

Looks good enough to eat.

Perfect for a Summer's afternoon!

A colourful field of cupcakes.

Art x Science

Look closely and then enjoy together.

Pouring, scooping, pretending.

Hanging Holiday Art!

A forever favourite for kids (and adults!) everywhere.

Wrap, weave, and build a place to sit together

Notes that turn into colour!

Threads and Textures

Big Build with even Bigger Energy

A pause button in the middle of the season.

Let the movement do the hard work.

Make the paper part of the present!

Weave and wrap and loop

Mosaics and more!

Truly the most special way to savour Spring forever!

Things with wings and sparkly bugs, oh my!

Watch loose wool turn into fabric in your hands!

Inspired by Rachel Burke (imakestagram)

Wearable art with serious personality.

Fashion you can carry home.

Tiny clothes for big play

The ultimate hanging canvas!

Costume a tiny person! Strike a pose! Tell a story!

A musical spinning top

Old records, new rhythms.

Pour and swirl in this sparkly world

Take a beat from Picasso’s Blue Guitars

Colour mixing reflections!

Create the most gorgeous snapshot in time.

Make a mini muse!

Dive in! (the ocean won’t paint itself)

Press the sea’s treasures into clay.

The leg bone's connected to the...

Op shop racquets become bright little looms (with pixels you can touch).

Stones and scoops and hidden treasure

Light, sound, and colour that move together.

Claim the islands, mark the X, build the world together

Shiny, shimmery, noisy fun.

Build, paint, and play inside a recycled Halloween installation

Such a classic!

Put your Yayoi-inspired portraits on show!

A tiny fibre room you can play in!

Create your own pirate chest and fill it with all the treasures!

Pull colour across a rocky horizon

Cut and stick the story of your own journey

Build your own road map of where you’ve been (or want to go next)!

Make it, wear it, start exploring!

Under and over and weave together

A little triangle with a lot to say!

Soft treasure trays for little makers.

Lines that print and repeat

Keep it friendly (not frightful) with bright colour, soft textures, simple tools.

Charlotte would be so proud!

Pour and plant and play with a tiny garden in a tub.

Dip a bloom and stamp the page.

Noticing all the gorgeous colours and forms of Spring!

Cut painted papers into petals and watch the page bloom.

Turn cardboard into a living world that grows with every new piece.

The colours! The sounds! All the Fall treasures!

Let leaves, foil, and fabric collide into one glowing page.

Press real leaves into clay and keep the season’s veins and edges forever.

Let your brushes meet bark! You'll bring the season inside, in the very best way,

Squeeze and spin and lift to reveal! A Smudge favourite process.

Wrap, bead, and bend wire around found cones to build playful, balancing forms.

Watch as the leaves appear from the background.

What gorgeous shapes can leaves and mists of colour make?

Spray a leaf-lined curtain and watch colours drift, drip, and mix!

Play that meets them right where they are.

Paint on a mirror and let the sky join in!

Look and notice and paint and draw. Will you see yourself differently?

Big faces & splashes of colour.

It's impossible not to smile making these prints!

Paint right onto your reflection and see yourself in all the art!

Cut, colour, dot, and stand them tall. 

Circles and circles and circles and more.

Circles and circles and circles and more.

Yayoi and her pumpkins!

Dig and scoop and discover

Sandcastle building without the sand in your toes

Print the sea again and again!

Ahoy! This ship runs on colour and chaos.

Ocean giants and glittering fins

Colour and air collide in a swirl of surprise.

A simple process that turns paint into pattern and whole new species.

Real or not, pumpkins are the perfect canvas!

A playful mix of texture and sparkle