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Our Story

Bears Get Crafty designer & owner,  Jools Wilson, started making paper buildings for her local Young Archaeologists group.

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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!

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.  

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

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

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

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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