Are you still looking for activities to keep your children occupied during the last few days of home schooling?

The Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival is working with Tesco to help the people of Shepton Mallet look forward to the first day of spring on March 20 with hope and optimism for a better year ahead.

The festival organisers and Tesco are hoping to fill the windows at the very front of the store with snowdrop models, paintings, drawings, stories and poems.

Lots of people across Shepton, including children from St Paul's Junior School, have already risen to the challenge, decorating windows, making models and even creating a snowdrop pebble trail around the town.

You can drop your artwork at Tesco customer services and watch it fill the windows over the coming weeks.

The tens of thousands of snowdrops planted by volunteers over the years are in full bloom too, earning Shepton Mallet its rightful title of the Snowdrop Town.

Two of the Snowdrop Festival organisers were recently invited to a secret location in Shepton Mallet to dig up a unique hybrid of snowdrop especially created for the owners of the house and the land.

In time they'll be replanted somewhere in the town for posterity and for all to see and enjoy for years to come.

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James Allen, Shepton's own son and galanthophile, and the nation's Snowdrop King, would have been proud.