This intergenerational art project brought together pupils at St Clement Danes Primary School with members of the Westminster Community Reminiscence & Archive Group to consider how the WW2 principles of Make Do and Mend might still be relevant today.

The children learned about rationing, growing your own food (including a visit to the Dig for Victory allotments in St James's Park) and recycling. They then devised new characters that could be used to encourage people to Make Do and Mend in the 21st century. Working with the adults, the children turned their drawings into collages using paints, fabrics, wool, buttons and anything else they could sew or glue onto fabric squares.

The squares were sewn together like a quilt and exhibited as part of the Make Do and Mend exhibition at the Churchill War Rooms. The quilt is now on display at the school.