Our Story
Bears Get Crafty designer & owner, Jools Wilson, started making paper buildings for her local Young Archaeologists group.
She mostly designs models with an archaeology or history theme, and began selling them as downloads to print and make at home. After being approached by the British Museum to retail two of her designs alongside the 'World of Stonehenge' exhibition in 2021, she decided to take the plunge and wholesale the model kits. Bears Get Crafty paper model kits are now on sale in museum shops in England, Scotland and Wales.
Work has now started on natural history themed and postable collections, and a selection of new greetings cards are planned for the future.
Our Products
All Bears Get Crafty products
are designed, tested, printed, created, packaged and posted in the UK!
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Our paper models are made of uncoated paper, which has a lovely, natural feel, and are printed with vegetable-base inks making them fully recyclable.
We use eco - friendly cello bags which are made from corn, beet or other sources and can be industrially composted.
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We are always looking for greener alternatives to the packaging we use. To make sure our postal packaging is as environmentally friendly as possible we avoid buying packing material containing plastic and reuse everything that comes our way. If something you receive from us is wrapped in plastic bubblewrap you can be sure it's on it's second use at least!
Retailers
The National Archives
878AD Winchester
Andover Museum & Museum of the Iron Age
Winchester City Museum
The Willis Museum, Basingstoke
The Great Hall with Westgate
Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon
Beaminster Museum
Brading Roman Villa
Butser Ancient Farm
Peterborough Museum
Rockbourne Roman Villa
Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum
The Orkney Museum
Trimontium Museum
Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
North Coast Visitor Centre
Old Scatness Broch & Iron Age Village Visitor Centre
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Home Front Museum, Llandudno
Oakwell Hall Country Park
Shetland Museum
Great Orme Mines
National Roman Legion Museum
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Clitheroe Castle Museum
Museum of Cornish Life, Helston
Museum of East Dorset
Daventry Museum
East Surrey Museum
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Ryedale Folk Museum
Senhouse Roman Museum
Shrewsbury Museum
Vale and Downland Museum
Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse
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Amersham Museum
Dumfries Museum
Hull and East Riding Museum
Kendal Museum
Ledbury Heritage Centre
Leominster Museum
Long Shop Museum, Leiston
Ludlow Museum
Milton Keynes Museum
Newton Abbott Museum
Norfolk Museums
Northampton Museum
Milestones Museum
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Reading Museum
Weston Museum
Verulamium
Ware Museum
Henley-in-Arden Heritage Centre
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