children’s workshop

Workshops coming up at Teignmouth Pavilions!

I’m running art and animation workshops at the Pavilions in April and May. Click here to book! Woodland Creatures 3D Animation Workshop During the springtime, woodland animals start to come out of hibernation and get ready for the year to come. What’s your favourite Woodland Animal? A rabbit or hedgehog? Maybe a squirrel? Come andContinue reading “Workshops coming up at Teignmouth Pavilions!”

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 🙂

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.

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.

Make Your Own: Owl Mini-Egg Box :)

Make Your Own Owl Mini-Egg Box! An Easter-time activity. Click on the picture to go to the free downloadable pdf to make your own Eggbox Owl! 🙂

Make Your Own – Rocket Comic Book!

Make Your Own Rocket Comic Book! This latest downloadable make is now up on my DIY page It’s a simple creative make for kids 7 and up, using basic, inexpensive materials. Click to go to the DIY page and click on the Rocket Comic Book heading to download. This fun make can be usedContinue reading “Make Your Own – Rocket Comic Book!”

Samurai Warrior Costume

Here’s another make you can do at home. To find out how to make it, go to to my DIY page and download the instructions there. Have fun! Make Your Own Samurai Warrior Costume! Easy make. Some help with stapling and cutting from a grownup required. Suitable for ages 5 and up. IfContinue reading “Samurai Warrior Costume”

Shellies animation at the Beacon Centre, Exeter

Another lovely morning with the families at the Beacon Centre yesterday making a very sweet little shell creatures animation 🙂

Bishopsteignton Primary School Comics Club – New Term!

I’ve got fourteen keen-as-mustard comic artists this term, and they are already coming up with some wonderful ideas, including a graphic novel and a very exciting joint project featuring a story told from three different points of view. This is a degree of sophistication I came across in works of authors and filmmakers only whenContinue reading “Bishopsteignton Primary School Comics Club – New Term!”