MAKE champions the value of teaching craft and making skills and advocates for the inclusion of craft within Scotland’s education curriculum.

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Pilot Schools Project Kit, 2021
MAKE Support Activity Guide by Laura Murray, 2020
MAKE with the Knit Shop, 2025
Craft and Making Education in Scotland Case Study, 2021
MAKE Learn Parliamentary Briefing, 2023
MAKE Happen event, 2019

MAKE with the Knit Shop

MAKE with the Knit Shop is a two-year teacher development project designed to embed craft approaches in schools.

Together with partners Knit Shop and Dundee Creative Learning Network, the project explores the value and potential of teaching craft across the curriculum and equips teachers with the skills, knowledge, confidence and experience, to provide quality education and impactful learning through the arts.

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A documentary film by Martin Clark (trailer), 2025
“At a time when children are spending increasing amounts of time on screens it is hugely valuable to have space to explore physical tactile materials.”
Teacher, Pilot Schools Project
“We need to know how to repair things, understand how things are made, and how to take them apart again and reuse all the bits.”
Mary Michel, Co-Director, Ostero
“Craft offers so much experience and expression in colour, form, materials, texture.”
Hazel Hughson, Core Team Leader, ShetlandPeerieMakkers
“The full range of curriculum subjects can be incorporated into craft education projects.”
Autism Spectrum Disorder Specialist
“Craft activities have engaged some children who might otherwise not be engaged in other areas of the curriculum.”
Teacher, Pilot Schools Project
“We need people who can craft and manufacture and make beautiful, useful things.”
Brian Wilkinson, Activities Manager, The Engine Shed, Historic Environment Scotland
“Learning about making can serve as an anchor for so many other curricular elements.”
Teacher, Pilot Schools Project
“We all completed our activity and it made me feel like l've just learnt something new in my life and I can actually use it. I felt so proud of myself when I finished.”
Pupil, Pilot Schools Project
“Encouraging creativity is important as it helps young people develop their own ideas and practical skills.”
Teacher, Pilot Schools Project

Resource Spotlight

Craft and Making Education in Scotland Today

Craft and making education can contribute to learning and attainment across the curriculum; improving mental health and wellbeing; driving employability in a range of sectors and developing capacities to respond to the climate emergency.
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