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Having hobbies and interests is great for health and wellbeing. Finding activities that we enjoy keeps us occupied, stimulated, entertained and challenged, and gives us a sense of purpose and satisfaction, particularly if we improve at something over time. At the Virtual Village Hall, you’ll find a wide range of activities to try, most of them designed for complete beginners, including regular courses.

 

 

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Main image, a DIY wall hanging flower basket, made from a round table placemat! The basket is pale green, with an assortment of pink flowers on a white wooden background.

Make a DIY Wall Hanging Flower Basket

Main image: a woman holding a handful of healthy soil, with a little green seedling sticking out the top.

Allotment Diaries Part 24 – How to Test Your Soil Health

The Allotment Diaries Episode 24

Main image: "Small Feather," a hand block-printed cotton designed by Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in England around 1930. White feather like pattern over a blue background.

Artist in Focus: Dorothy Larcher

Main image: Japanese woodblock print titled "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, featuring a large cresting wave over boats and Mount Fuji. In various blues and, with a pale yellow background.

Artist in Focus: Katsushika Hokusai

Main image: artwork by Mary Moser (British 1744-1819), Study of flowers; roses, marigolds and stocks, circa 1769-1793. Watercolour.

Artist in Focus: Mary Moser

Main image: A painting titled Stilleben mit Krügen (Still Life with Jugs), created around 1908 by the German Expressionist artist Max Pechstein.

Artist in Focus: Max Pechstein

Main image: "The Lion at Home" by French 19th century artist Rosa Bonheur, completed in 1881. A mother and father lion, lay with their three cubs.

Artist in Focus: Rosa Bonheur

Main image: a Beatrix Potter illustration of a mother rabbit handing picnic baskets to her young rabbit children.

Artist in Focus: Exploring the Art of Beatrix Potter

Main image: Snow at Argenteuil" 1875. By Claude Monet. A winter snow scene, with trees, houses in the background and a snowy road with a person walking along.

Artist in Focus: How to Paint Winter Snow Scenes

Main image: "Among the Firs" by Canadian artist Emily Carr - an expressive painting of fir tress, with greens, browns and blues.

Artist in Focus: Emily Carr

Main image: 'Composition', painted by Piet Mondrian in 1921. A variety of blue red and yellow rectangles, with bold black lines.

Artist in Focus: Piet Mondrian

Main image: Sea Anemones, Actiniae by Ernst Haeckel, in his book 'Art Forms in Nature, 1899'.

Artist in Focus: Ernst Haeckel

Main image: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 by JMW Turner, a depiction of the fire see from afar, with blues and bright oranges for the flames.

Artist in Focus: J.M.W Turner

Main Image: "The Codomas" 1946 collage by 20th-century French Artist Henri Matisse. A collage of bright abstract shapes and colours.

Artist in Focus: Henri Matisse

Main image: Painterly Architectonic - art piece by Lyubov Popova, a mix of geometric shapes in bright colours - inspired by the cubism movement.

Artist in Focus: Lyubov Popova