Fresh up on my Free Downloads page, a Make Your Own Comic Workshop! Click on picture below to download, and send me the results please! I would love to see your work, and I will post it here on my website! 🙂
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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! 🙂
The Andean Bears of “Darkest Peru”
Creative learning activity suitable for 8 years and up. I’ve been trying to draw bears a lot recently. There’s something so cuddly about them – like teddy bears – but that’s not at all true, and I wouldn’t like to meet one up close – that’s a fact! :/ Here’s a great article about real-life,Continue reading “The Andean Bears of “Darkest Peru””
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”
Make Your Own Eggbox Puppet
Make Your Own Egg Box Hand Puppet & Mini Easter Egg Holder This is a super-easy make for ages five and up – even doable for younger children if grownups lend a hand. Make sure if you use scissors or a stapler that an adult helps you 🙂 Create a frog, owl, lion, hippo handContinue reading “Make Your Own Eggbox Puppet”
Puppets in Exeter
I was very lucky to get the opportunity to sit in on some undergraduate puppetry sessions at Exeter University recently. Led by the brilliant Cariad  Astles, I got a real insight into performing with puppets and working out what makes a good performance and puppetry piece. Really interesting, and extremely useful for a kids puppetContinue reading “Puppets in Exeter”
Print & Collage Pictures
This is a lovely, accessible way to make beautiful prints, and used by a lot of illustrators to create fascinating and bold images. Using simple materials: black poster paint, corks, bubblewrap, sponges and corrugated cardboard, we printed onto A4 paper creating beautifully patterned sheets. After drying we cut the paper into shapes to make people,Continue reading “Print & Collage Pictures”
The Wizard of Oz at Magic Carpet
What beautiful puppets and theatre the guys made during our Wizard of Oz workshop yesterday!
Rocket Comics At Teignmouth Library!
What a brilliant, creative workshop! Thanks to Cathy and Caroline for helping out and to the children and their families for coming and getiing into the activity so enthusiastically,. And the result was some rather lovely, unique rocket comics 🙂