March 2012
11 posts
Puppets 'R' Us
On Friday we carried on with our backgrounds at West Exe, with Tamsin Pender doing some lovely work with paints. At the same time we also started to work on puppets with the children, so that they could be combined with their backgrounds to animate their memories. The photo below shows one of the children moving a puppet of him and his dad, while they take a walk, on top of the painting he created...
Japanese Art
We have been working this week on art inspired by Japanese printing and illustration. Continuing our puppet theme at St Sids, we have been making fish that will be jumping in and out of huge waves that we also have made. There were some interesting results, especially for the growth of the participants. There ability to move a puppet and understand that this needs to be something which is done...
Backgrounds
This week at West Ex children’s centre we broke down our ‘memories’ idea to work on it piece by piece. It is quite a small group there and they are less used to this more focussed work. Lizzie has been working really well to engage the families in movement and dance exploring places that the children like to go, ending in a fantastic under the sea exploration with beautiful...
Lots of Energy
On Friday we finished off the animation about Solar energy that was sponsored by Ekland. It was such a fun session, with the children and families making puppets of themselves to live in the houses they had created the previous week. This type of focussed work is difficult for the families, especially when we are aware that there is a message based, final piece that needs to be finished. The...
Memories
We are working at West-Exe Children’s Centre putting together some work on Memories. Through movement, puppetry and visual arts we are hoping to engage the children in thinking about times they have spent with their parents or carers. The group is very young and animation would be quite difficult for them. Filming is also tricky at this type of drop in session, and so we are focusing around...
Going Solar
Started back at our regular St Sidwell’s sessions on a Friday, with an exciting opportunity to make an animation about renewable energy. The lovely people at Ekland Solar have donated some money to fund our sessions, and this has given us a chance to do some further themed animation work. The families spent there time this week preparing much of the materials that would be needed to make an...
