children

Lilo & Stitch Animation Workshop – Surf’s Up!

A busy, fun session at Teignmouth Pavilions last Wednesday with a group of super-creative and focused children making their own spin on the Lilo and Stitch film as a stop-motion animation. Here’s what they produced – in two hours!

Virtual Recipe Book for Gaza

I’m taking part in an online project called “Virtual Hug for Gaza”. It’s organised by a wonderful illustrator called Yulia Gwylim, and seeks to raise funds for locally-based, Palestinian-run charities providing food and healthcare in Gaza. Each contributor offers an illustrated favourite recipe to the online zine – I’m really looking forward to see whatContinue reading “Virtual Recipe Book for Gaza”

How to Train your Dragon Animations – Teignmouth Pavilions

Here are the animations everyone made at last Wednesday’s workshop. Thanks so much for coming, everyone, you all did brilliantly!

The Amazing Squirrel Circus!

So here’s the animation we made at the recent Small World workshop in Teignmouth. Such a lovely bunch of children, mums and grandparents, all full of brilliant ideas and creativity! Well done, everyone 🙂

Do try this at home – Read for Good story generator

Have a go at this – it’s brilliant. Here’s the story it generated for me (aka Lavinia) The Pop Star by Lavinia I am smally olives, the famous pop star. All my fans threw their hot pants at me when I went on Top of the mops to sing my new single, ‘jumping tuba’. whichContinue reading “Do try this at home – Read for Good story generator”

Fantastical Forests Art Workshop

Some beautiful, magical artworks were made at the “Fantastical Forests” workshop I ran at half term. So good to see all the children so busy and engaged, imagining and creating their own fantastical forest worlds.

The Owl and the Pussycat workshop

My next workshop will be at Teignmouth Pavilions Theatre on 12th February 10.30am-12.30pm. We’ll be reading the poem and finding out a bit about its author, the artist and writer Edward Lear, and learning a bit about “nonsense verse” too. Come and make, colour and decorate your own model of Edward Lear’s characters The Owl andContinue reading “The Owl and the Pussycat workshop”

make your own santa shadow puppet show!

Here’s a lovely simple activity to download, perfect for keeping you, and your friends and family entertained for long dark nights. Learn how to make your own shadow Santa puppet and set up a shadow “screen” to perform on.

Beacon Heath Animation Workshops

Hi guys, here are your brilliant animations!! It was lovely to meet you all, and everyone did brilliantly. Hope to see you there again soon 🙂

“Charley says…” BFI kids online

The British Film Institute have put up a collection of films for under-5s online. It’s a real mixed bag! Some of them I remember from childhood – LOTS of public safety films for children, the best ones being the “Charley Says…” series. I’m not sure many 21st Century Children will really enjoy some of themContinue reading ““Charley says…” BFI kids online”