We Wish You A Merry Craftmas

Late December, 2009: the libraries of South Staffordshire rang with the sounds of chattering children and snapping crackers as we, the Big Art People, ran our 5th lot of craft sessions.

We worked with loads of kids (and the odd parent), in Wombourne, Perton, Brewood, Codsall, Penkridge, and Cheslyn Hay.

The children all made wintery scenes on paper plates, shiny crowns, and customized crackers (complete with joke). Truly the spirit of Christmas was in the air, and it was a lovely end to a rather hectic year.

We have just one set of craft sessions to go, during February half term. What the theme is we do not yet know, but rest assured the crafts will be as crafty as ever.

In other news, Perton library has received some funding for us to do a pebble mosaic in their courtyard, in conjunction with the local community...so that's exciting!

Join the Quest!

Our summer of craft workshops continues this and next week in seven South Staffs libraries.

Here's a few pictures from Codsall and Perton.

We've been making some Ben 10 alien watches...

...and, as ever, those brilliantly tall and colourful headdresses!

We've got 6 more days of this, then it's down to Bedfordshire for some rainforest-themed drumming sessions at the Children's University. Busy busy busy.

Jim

Crafts in Coventry #2

As promised, here are a few photos from today's workshop with KS2.

They made storybooks...

...and headdresses...

...and everyone had a great time!

We're heading down to South Staffordshire for the next fortnight to run the rest of our summer craft workshops. So there's plenty of planning to do!

Crafts in Coventry

Here are a few photos from the first of two craft workshops we're running this summer at Southfields Primary School in Coventry (where we made our glorious tiger mosaic, and filmed our first video diary). Today we worked with some local KS1 children who each made their very own magical story book starring their very own wizard or witch!

They made and bound their books, then designed houses, potions, spells, and monsters to fill it.

At the end they added words to their pictures to complete the story.