The project should be lots of fun for the kids, the staff and the parents

The school or the PTA should make a very good profit from the project

The person organising the project will always receive full support from all our team throughout the ordering process - to make it simple, easy and stress-free

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Firstly a little about us:-

Back in 1975 Countryside Art were the first company to have the idea of printing school children’s drawings on to tea towels when the pupils of Eresby Special School in Spilsby used to visit our first workshops for design and printing work experience.  (If you would like to see more about this period in our company’s history you can read about it on our ‘About Us’ page).

Now over 40 years later Countryside Art is well established as the UK’s leading supplier of top quality giftware to many of the country’s top organisations such as National Trust. The British Museum, Cadbury, Chatsworth House, Royal National Lifeboat Institution…we could list hundreds more.

We’ve been relentlessly copied ever since by other companies but our school tea towels plus our other superb quality school giftware products still remain ‘The Original & Best’. 

We approach every aspect of the production of our school giftware with exactly the same care and attention we provide to all our top customers.  For instance, one day our designers will be working on a new design project for The British Museum, the next day preparing your full colour bag design for print. 

Producing a tea towel, or any of our other best-selling products, is a great project in which to involve the whole school. 

It is very easy and we’ve produced a video on how to use our artwork kit involving the kind assistance from one of our local schools, Halton Holgate C of E Primary School. 

This is all you need to do:-

Step 1: Send off for as many artwork kits as you need for your project (two products can be designed from each kit).

Step 2: Follow the easy instructions contained in the kit to create your design (kit instructions are also available in the ‘Downloads’ section of the website as well as the order form, choice of borders and price lists). 

Step 3: Return your completed order form and design/s in the same tube/s.  Let us know if you want to receive a visual, or bypass that stage and opt for our Express Service and then leave the rest to us.

Step 4: We will confirm receipt of your order (send a visual if requested) and then in a short time dispatch your beautiful, top quality, school giftware to sell to all your happy parents and children.  We invoice you when the goods are despatched and then you have 30 days to pay.

Sounds simple – and it is!

Throughout every stage of the process our very helpful Sales Team and Designers are on hand to assist with any queries you may have.  So please do call us on   01790 754 806, email, or get in touch via our Contact Page – we are always happy to help in any way we can. 

We have also included a list of FAQs covering the main questions we are asked. 

How To Use Our School Artwork Kit

Specific Colours

If you have a specific colour we are very happy to mix to individual pantone colours or match by eye to supplied swatches or items such as school uniform colours etc.

Please ask our Sales Team for advice

Our tea towels are superb quality, colour-fast and will last and last.  Our reproduction of the children’s artwork is very accurate to their original drawings as we are experts in holding on to every last detail. 

We know these tea towels are an item which are treasured and held on to for years.  We are now printing the artwork from the grandchildren of pupils we featured on our original school tea towels. 

So if you want the best possible school tea towels then we are the company to choose. 

We produce single colour and multi-colour tea towels on four types of fabric (sewn size 48cm by 76cm approx.)  We have a wide selection of decorative borders in single and multi-colour to choose from which are available as a downloadable pdf and also shown further down this page too. 

 The maximum number of drawings per tea towel is 300.

For more information please get in touch via our Contact Page

Standard Cotton Tea Towels – in a bright white finish.  Sewn on the two long sides with woven selvedges each end.

Premium Cotton Tea Towels – in a non-optic very pale cream finish.  Sewn on all four sides.

Unbleached Cotton Tea Towels – in a natural, oatmeal finish with tiny flecks of cotton seed.  Sewn on all four sides. 

Linen Union Tea Towels – a 50/50 cotton linen blend in a bright white finish.  Sewn on all four sides.   

Low Cost Calico Bags (Single Colour)

Flat & gusseted bags – available in unbleached calico only 

Top Left – low cost gusseted unbleached calico bag – printed one side only

Size: 37cm by 37cm with a 9cm gusset approx. and medium length calico handles

Maximum number of drawings (one side only) 110

Bottom Right – low cost flat unbleached calico bag – printed one side only

Size: 38cm by 38cm approx. with medium length calico handles

Maximum number of drawings (one side only) 110

Low Cost Calico Bags (Full Colour)

Flat & gusseted bags – available in unbleached calico only 

Top Left – low cost gusseted unbleached calico bag – printed one side only

Size: 37cm by 37cm with a 9cm gusset approx. and medium length calico handles

Maximum number of drawings (one side only) 110

Bottom Right – low cost flat unbleached calico bag – printed one side only

Size: 38cm by 38cm approx. with medium length calico handles

Maximum number of drawings (one side only) 110

Low Cost Canvas Bags (Full Colour)

Flat & gusseted bags – available in bleached canvas only  

Top Left – low cost gusseted bleached canvas bag – printed one side only 

Size: 37cm by 37cm with a 10cm gusset approx and medium length canvas handles

Maximum number of drawings (one side only) 110

Bottom Right – low cost flat bleached canvas bag – printed one side only

Size: 40cm wide by 43cm high approx. with medium length calico handles

Maximum number of drawings (one side only) 110

Deluxe UK-Made Canvas Bags (Single Colour)

Flat and gusseted bags - available in bleached or unbleached canvas 

Top Left – gusseted canvas bag (bleached version shown) printed both sides as standard 

Size: 37cm wide by 37cm high with a 10cm gusset approx. – with short webbing handles (medium or long handles are available for a small extra charge)

Bottom Right – flat canvas bag (unbleached version shown)  – printed both sides as standard

Size: 35cm wide by 40cm high approx. – with short webbing handles (medium or long handles are available for a small extra charge)

Maximum number of drawings per side 110

Deluxe UK-Made Canvas Bags (Full Colour)

Flat and gusseted bags - available in bleached canvas only 

Top Left – gusseted canvas bag (bleached version shown) printed both sides as standard 

Size: 37cm wide by 37cm high with a 10cm gusset approx. – with short webbing handles (medium or long handles are available for a small extra charge)

Bottom Right – flat canvas bag (unbleached version shown)  – printed both sides as standard

Size: 35cm wide by 40cm high approx. – with short webbing handles (medium or long handles are available for a small extra charge)

Maximum number of drawings per side 110

Child-Sized UK-Made Canvas Bags (Single Colour)

Flat bags – available in bleached or unbleached canvas 

Left – flat canvas bag (unbleached version shown) printed both sides as standard 

Right – flat canvas bag (bleached version shown)  – printed both sides as standard 

Size: 28cm wide by 34cm high approx. with short canvas handles

Maximum number of drawings per side 110

Peg Bags

A popular product if you are looking for something a bit unusual  

These peg bags achieve good sales with parents suffering from tea towel fatigue and give years of useful service

Printed front and reverse in single colour, on either bleached or unbleached 10oz canvas (see the bags above for images of both fabric finishes).  The peg bag features a soft-wood dowel and brass hook for hanging purposes.

Size: 28cm wide by 39cm high approx. 

Maximum number of drawings per peg bag 189

Kit Bags

A large capacity drawstring bag for sports kit

The bag includes a name scroll for the easy identification of each pupil’s bag in the cloakroom 

Printed front and reverse – these kit bags are available on bleached or unbleached 8oz cotton drill (see the aprons below for images of both fabric finishes).  The drawstring is a heavy-duty cotton cord. 

Size: 38cm wide by 40cm high approx.

Maximum number of drawings per side 110.

Book Bags

A PVC backed nylon washable book bag

Featuring a webbing carrying handle, bound edges and a Velcro fastening front flap.  There is a name block for writing on the child’s name and a wide variety of bag colours available. 

Size: 30cm by 36cm

These bags are suited for school logo-type designs only

Carrier Bag Tidies

Cotton Carrier Bag Tidies

With a cotton cord loop for hanging purposes – these tidies are great for storing not only plastic bags but also lots of other things like socks, dusters and gloves etc.  The children's drawings are printed on the front and reverse.

Size: 18cm wide by 55cm high approx. 

Maximum number of  drawings 200

Aprons

Our generously sized adult and child sized aprons, feature adjustable neck ties and are available with single colour or multi-colour prints.

Our aprons are printed on to a heavy-weight 8oz cotton drill in both bleached and unbleached finishes. 

Size: adult apron 60cm by 85cm approx

Size: child apron 41cm by 66cm approx 

We can reduce the one design to fit both adult and child aprons so no need to supply the artwork twice. 

Maximum number of drawings per apron 375 

Left - child apron on 8oz bleached drill

Right - adult apron on 8oz bleached drill 

Left - child apron on 8oz unbleached drill

Right - adult apron on 8oz unbleached drill 

Calendars

Superb quality full colour A4 spiral bound calendars in full colour

Our calendars are available in either 6 or 12 page formats with a printed front cover and printed on heavy-weight 160gsm paper in full colour. 

With a selection of colourful page layouts to choose from (on our Downloads page), up to three school dates per month can also be added free-of-charge.  We can also add extra sheets with school dates etc if required. 

Supplied individually packed in a clear polypropylene bag. 

Maximum number of drawings per page 30 plus more drawings can be added to the front cover too

Notelets

A useful but inexpensive gift – even in the age of emails it is still lovely to receive a hand written note, what better to write on!

Printed in either single or multi-colour on to A4 100gsm cream or white paper and folded down to A6. 

Sold as a pack of 10 notelets and 10 envelopes, these make an inexpensive and useful gift. 

The same size of design supplied for a tea towel can also be reduced down to notelet size too.

Maximum number of drawings per notelet 300

Available in A5 and A6 sizes and printed on a quality 280gsm coated card with a matt inside for ease of writing. 

Each card can be printed front and reverse with either single or multi-colour images plus an inside greeting can be added (for a small extra charge). 

We also offer a choice of single and multi-coloured borders which can also be downloaded.

Cards are supplied packed as a set of 5 cards and 5 envelopes in a clear polypropylene bag. 

Maximum number of drawings 300

Christmas Cards – a selection of A5 & A6 multi-coloured cards

Christmas Cards – a selection of A5 & A6 single coloured cards

Jotter Pads

These are an inexpensive and popular product with schools coming back year after year for orders 

Available with single colour printing; the A6 approx. sized jotter pad contains 150 sheets of 80gsm paper with each sheet printed with the same design.  

The jotter pads are available on white or cream paper and are supplied packed in a clear polypropylene bag. 

Maximum number of drawings per jotter pad is usually 46 (but up to 60 can be fitted in if required).  Or these jotter pads are also ideal for school logos too.

Key Rings & Fridge Magnets

These clear acetate key rings and fridge magnets are ideal for displaying school logos

Key rings can have the same or a different image each side. 

The size for each key ring is 55mm by 80mm and the fridge magnet is 65mm by 95mm.

Supplied bulk packed in 10s.

Suitable for logo-type designs only

Bone China Mugs – featuring a selection of different types of designs

Earthenware Mugs – featuring a class and a logo only design

Bone China Mug – featuring the school logo plus an inner rim print

T-shirts, Sweatshirts & Fleeces

We offer a range of garments, including t-shirts, sweat shirts in either single colour or multi-spot colour prints and embroidered fleeces