Category: Orange Basho 🍊
Toolkits by CATs in the Orange Basho
Reading Time: 3 minutesSynopsis A 20-minute, step-by-step toolkit that helps any learner turn nerves into energy and deliver a clear 30-second opening using paced breathing, a personal self-talk line, and an if-then plan. How this toolkit connects You will read for 30 seconds twice. The Practice Text Pack gives you short public-domain passages to read. The Mini Workbook […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction Everyone has a story. This story may be about a trauma, a relationship, or a memory. It may be impossible to express in words or understand by others. Perhaps we don’t need to “tell” these stories, but rather a way to see them, understand them, and coexist with them. Art may not be able […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you want to be an artist?🧑🎨 Do you want to have a pet partner? Let’s go!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Unit1: What is it? ——This toolkit will guide you to easily complete an animal artwork of your own in just 20 minutes. ——You can choosecair clay to shape cute animals. The entire process is very simple […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever found yourself taken back to a long-ago moment when you hear a familiar melody? Did the feeling seem calm, joyful, or perhaps a little sad? Do you sometimes feel that being immersed in music is like taking a brief journey through time? If you have had similar emotional experiences, then join me […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction / Context When you think of ‘Model Villages’, you might immediately think of miniature houses. This is by no means incorrect- but the term ‘model village’ can also refer to the industrial ‘model villages’ designed by architects to house industrial workers. By making this ceramic house you are constructing your own […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes Banksy – Ferris Wheel, 2017, installation view, Barbican Centre, London, England, photo: Ungry Young Man, Banksy – Basquiat – London Barbican – September 2017 – 04 , CC BY 2.0 Art Detective Crash Course Ready to solve your first art mystery? Use this personalized 20 minute art detective simulator. You’ll receive a […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes📖Introduction Have you ever experienced moments like this—where meditating to music creates vague yet soothing images in your mind, and you wish to freeze this dreamlike memory, yet don’t know how to capture it through the camera lens? Master photographer Ansel Adams once said: ‘Photography is the art of capturing emotion and light in a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Short introduction for thisToolkit(5 minutes): OR text version(3 minutes): open toolkit video text version 5 steps to create music using everyday objects: Step 1: Close your eyes. What do you hear? Can you describe what is making the sound? (1 minutes) Step 2: Find a place you think is quiet. Listen […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction video introduction video “Creativity is not far away, not in the mind of a genius, but in everyone’s body, waiting to be awakened by the impulse.” Are you feeling drained of creativity and struggling to come up with good ideas? Do you think creativity is the privilege of genius and has nothing to […]





![Xu Bing – Gravitational Theater, 2023, installation view, 1th floor perspective, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, photo: [Siqi Xue], CC BY 4.0
Xu Bing – Gravitational Theater, 2023, installation view, 1th floor perspective, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, photo: [Siqi Xue], CC BY 4.0](https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/opentoolkits/wp-content/uploads/sites/8719/2025/11/xubing.png)


