Part Nine Emirates Air Line

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Lift off with TfL’s Craft Club
Soar above London’s skyline with our latest edition
of TfL’s Craft Club in partnership with Emirates Air Line.

We’ve had some inspiring artistic moments while taking
to the air on London’s only cable car which crosses the
River Thames between Greenwich Peninsula and the
Royal Docks. We hope this pack inspires you to open that
craft box or pencil case, grab a sheet of paper and get creative.

In this edition, we explore observational techniques, drawing
natural and synthetic materials and then using these skills to
draw scenes and settings such as the shore and skyline views
that can be seen from the cable car. And if you’re handy with
a pair of scissors, you can build your own model of the
Emirates Air Line too!

Happy crafting and as always please do share your
creations with us.

Building up your sketch book
It’s good practice to draw in your sketch book daily; this ensures you are building your
creative and observational skills. Here is a little exercise to keep those skills fresh.
Draw a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock,
this can be in their natural state like a stone, piece of wood, or manufactured items like a
wooden spoon, fork, coffee pot or glass of water. You could draw a scene where you can find
all of these materials. We’ve chosen this one of the Emirates Air Line in North Greenwich.

A view of the shore
While visiting the Emirates Air Line draw a picture from the shore of the Thames, include as
much detail as possible.

If this is not possible, draw the shore of the Thames from the Emirates Air Line picture on
page two.

Colour in the picture to identify the different materials.

• Water = dark blue			           • Wood = brown			                • Metal = black
• Plastic = orange			            • Glass = light blue			          • Rock = grey

You could use a variety of materials like pencil, marker, or pen. These are great for getting
detail into your sketch as they have fine nibs for drawing thin lines. You can build up your
colours by cross-hatching your lines, applying light or heavy pressure to your pen will give
you a lighter or darker colour, or use block colour with your markers or colour pencils so
you can’t see any of the page below.

You will need:
• A printer to print the template
• A pair of scissors to cut it out, ask your grown-up to help you here
• A glue stick to stick down the tabs
• Colour pens or pencils to decorate
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• Print your Emirates Air Line template onto A4 paper
• This is a good time to decorate your cable car with your own unique design
• Using your scissors, carefully cut out the whole shape as one piece including each of the tabs
• Fold the top and bottom of the cable car, see the fold lines
• Fold the tabs and begin glueing and sticking each one to the unprinted side of the paper
• Now fold, glue and stick down each of the three tabs on the top panel of your cable car
• Repeat this with the bottom panel
• You’ve made your very own Emirates Air Line cable car!
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Fly 90 metres above the Thames on the UK’s only
urban cable car. Located between North Greenwich
and Royal Victoria just 15 minutes from Central
London. All households or groups travel in their own
private cabin at no extra cost. For more information
and to book tickets online from just £4 click here.