I'm Loving Angels In...Crewe

A couple of weeks ago I went to Springfield Special School in Crewe to help some of the Juniors make some giant angels for their Christmas performances.
Here were the plans:

With my two wonderfully helpful helpers, we split the group in two and had them each work on a different angel. The children did all of the design work, then painted their designs onto large pieces of cloth.

They were happy painting away which left us to dish out paint and clean up the mess they made!

After a hard day's work the children went home and I attached the painted sheets to the pre-made frames, and popped a light inside each one to give them an ethereal glow.

Result: two big, colourful angels for Springfield School.

Where The Wild Things Are...in Nottingham

A few weeks ago we went to Fernwood Junior School to help them celebrate their ‘Community Day’. There seemed to be lots going on, but we barely had time to investigate as we were busy working with Year 5 to make four monstrous multicultural masterpieces!

We started with four local landmarks: the school, the war memorial, the park, and the library, then tasked the children with populating them with the most diverse community imaginable...a community where everyone is welcome regardless of how many legs, arms, eyes, or noses they have, or whether they are covered in fur, scales, or slime.

There were just 2 rules:

• No colouring in. All monsters must be drawn in black pen on white paper.
• Each monster had to feature 1 coloured detail, either the school logo, a poppy, a woolly hat or scarf, or a book, depending on which place they were stood outside.

The children took to it brilliantly, creating a multicultural community of hundreds of hilarious, happy monsters.

They even sent us a thank you card!