Our Story
Bears Get Crafty designer & owner, Jools Wilson, started making paper model kits for her local Young Archaeologists group. She designs kits 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.
Jools also accepts commissions for paper building kits and other illustration work.
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.
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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
Andover Museum & Museum of the Iron Age
Curtis Museum, Alton
Milestones Museum
Rockbourne Roman Villa
Winchester City Museum
AD87 Winchester
The Great Hall with Westgate, Winchester
Red House Museum, Christchurch
Willis Museum and Allen Gallery
Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Dumfries Museum
Dorchester Abbey Museum
Trimontium Museum
Long Shop Museum, Leiston
Shetland Museum
Old Scatness Broth & Iron Age Village
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Aldershot Military Museum
Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre
Great Orme Mines
Beaminster Museum
Clitheroe Castle Museum
Butser Ancient Farm
Ledbury Heritage Centre
Henley in Arden Heritage Centre
Lytham Hall
Ryedale Folk Museum
Senhouse Roman Museum
Home Front Museum, Llandudno
Roman Legion Museum
Hull Museum
Orkney Museum
Peterborough Museum
Vale and Downland Museum
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