January 2012
4 posts
Replacement Bugs
Back at the Whipton Children’s Centres’ ‘Stay and Play’ session, we have been working on Bugs again but this time taking the animation and film work forward. With Kate Mitchell, the children have been working on backgrounds and puppets to be used to create a little film. It has been great working collaboratively on this model, as the children have been getting a much more...
Shadows At West Exe
Over the last three weeks we have been working with Tamsin Pender at West Exe Children’s Centre developing a creative approach to exploring Shadows. For this age group, the recognition of what shadow is and how it works is really difficult. It has been through a slow process of creative play that they have been able to start to acknowledge, explore and control their shadows in some way....
St. Sidwell's Family Sessions
New for 2012, we have just starting working with families at a session run in the St Sidwell’s Centre. This is our first central Exeter session that is run outside of a Children’s Centre, and the response has been great. Over the first 2 weeks we have been looking at ‘Family’ and ‘Support Networks’. The great thing about this session is that it is a support...
Crazy Faces
It’s been a while, but we want to say a little bit about, and show you, the final film done at West Exe Children’s Centre in collaboration with Double Elephant Print Workshop and Tamsin Pender. At the final session, we worked on some other layers of faces using plasticine and other items to animate moving facial features. This took the children even further than we had done before and...
