Summer holiday morning
We’ll have some ad hoc sessions over the summer, for our regular ‘after school’ people, and the first one was today! We picked lots of...
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Katy
Jul 22, 20221 min read
Finishing touches…
We only have a couple of weeks left of term, including this session, so we’re starting to finish our clay projects. It’s been an...
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Katy
Jul 21, 20221 min read
Birthdays
Two of our young people have had birthdays recently, and today we gave them presents of art materials- which the got stuck into using...
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Katy
Jul 8, 20221 min read
Al fresco sculpting
Another blistering afternoon, so we took the workshop outside! Some painting of sculptures, plus some new sculptures in the making! The...
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Katy
Jul 5, 20221 min read
More arty pottering
We’re continuing with our clay work, and learning how to slab-build on a small scale- quite tricky! It’s great to develop ideas, and to...
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Katy
Jul 5, 20221 min read
Al fresco tea!
What started out as a much cooler, cloudier day just got hotter and hotter! So we had our meal outside, which was lovely🌺🌼 We forgot to...
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Katy
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Art and volunteers
We had a young volunteer this week, who spent time at the allotment and with the art group. She helped pick (and eat!) our fab...
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Katy
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Pottering at the plot
After school this week was a bit cooler than it has been, so instead of spending time in the wildflower den area, the young people opted...
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Katy
Jun 23, 20221 min read
Strawberries and dens
So hot in the allotment, even at the end of the day! We were able to cook our tea outside- using some of our home grown chard and broad...
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Katy
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Summer clay project
We were so busy in our art session, we forgot to take photos! In the next few weeks before the summer holidays, we are doing some clay...
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Katy
May 20, 20221 min read
Fabulous kaleidoscopes!
Something that’s been in my mind for a while, and today we finally got around to making our own kaleidoscopes from scratch. They seemed...
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Katy
May 14, 20221 min read
Steiner-inspired art
We’re using special waxed paper to carefully cut out designs that will overlap and create gorgeous colours when the light is behind them....
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Katy
May 14, 20221 min read
Wild wildflowers
Our young people were learning the safe use of tools this afternoon- in fact, they were using shears to clear nettle. They made the...
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Katy
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Sunshiny after school
Lovely weather, and we’re still marvelling that it’s light until the end of our session! New energy for creating different sorts of dens,...
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Katy
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Spring art
We’re making the most of the spring flowers, by preserving them to make chains of natural sun catchers. Using our wire-twisting skills...
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Katy
Apr 5, 20221 min read
Potions!
Much cooler and quite overcast this afternoon, but there’s was lots of potion making! We have lots of herbs on the plot, and the mint is...
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Katy
Mar 29, 20221 min read
Allotment jobs
Probably the last of the really warm weather for a while, so at our after school session we did some work on the allotment- weeding,...
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Katy
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Loving the sunshine!
‘What would you like to do first?’ ’Painting!’ Our small group this week were very keen to get out the watercolours! They then made a...
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Katy
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Art using the sunshine
We were using the photography process of cyanotype print making today, which creates ‘blueprint’ images. I had already made the cyanotype...
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Katy
Mar 23, 20221 min read
Mother’s Day, and making camp!
We’re really loving the longer evenings- hard to think that we needed the greenhouse lights on until quite recently. We used some...
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