Rawlins Christmas Craft Fair THIS SUNDAY!

This Sunday from 10.30 to 4.30 it's Rawlins'



craft fair!!!!!! I am doing FREE craft activities including making a Christmas tree decoration out of pine cones AND gift boxes. What's to stay in for?? See you all there!!

Pudsey Bear face painting!

As modelled by my gorgeous daughter (at 8am this morning!)

Nature boxes created by Quorn children's art group

Recycling plastic boxes and decorating them with pressed leaves from St. Bartholomew's school garden was the task on Wednesday after school. My lovely 15 strong group had carefully selected leaves which had been pressed and went to work crafting small boxes from donations made from an office clear out. This fine example shows how attractive the Autumn colours and textures were.

Arts Award student has jewellery in shop window!

Charlotte Noon, 18, has had a range of her hand made jewellery bought by 'Libby's' in Quorn. In a stunning shop front display, her red necklace looks incredible. We are so incredibly proud of her!

World art gets all fine arty!

Huge acrylic painting by one of our lovely art club group (on her 8th birthday no less!). It's amazing what we get done in just one hour!!!!

Seagrave Globe is complete (except for installation!)

This huge metal globe is incredibly difficult to do justice with a camera. The scale and detail are incredible but hard to see here. It is going to be erected at the front of Seagrave Village Primary school very soon with an exciting launch event. The children who made is are aged just 7 to 11 years and their hard work has created this ball of stories and images which tell of their global links and world-wide friendships.

Seagrave globe project begins!

The ingredients of this project:

Ten gifted and talented children aged 7 to 11. One steel frame. Many metres of assorted wire. Imagination.

This huge, ambitious sculpture is going to depict Seagrave's multi-cultural links. The children are designing and making wire drawings of all kinds of images related to the theme. I am wiring them all onto a globe.

Wish us luck! Continues on Monday...

Rustic, cultural clay tiles

World Art week two:

These tiles are made from layering air dry clay onto large ceramic tiles. The children looked at relief images from Africa and India and recreated them. They used wooden beads to decorate.

Wild flower nature reserve created by group

This week we learnt about wild flowers and the fact that they are often preserved in this country on grass verges. We looked at books and talked about what we knew about them. Then we all worked together to create a grass verge full of flowers. It got wild, with 15 participants and piles of tissue paper, but amazingly, here is the wonderful result!

World art is launched!

My new after school club 'WORLD ART' takes inspiration from art and craft traditions from around the world. To launch to club tonight, we looked at carnivals and masks from Italy, Africa, Mexico and Beijing.

Some of the participants are here displaying their masks....

Art, nature and the environment

Inspiration is taken from trees, plants, birds and insects for this new after school club at St Bartholomew's Primary school in Quorn. 15 participants aged from 7 to 11 this week studied local bugs and carefully painted them in detail onto pebbles.