Lantern making

We were busy making lanterns at St James Juniors, at Madeley Youth Centre as well as drop in sessions in the park.
They all made our Luminate lantern festival look wonderful.

Sculpture Club @ St James

Here are some more large paper mache birds we have been making with St James Juniors for our Lark in the Park event in August.

Sculpture Club @ St James Juniors

We have been delivering a 6 week after- school club at St James Juniors with a lovely group of children, their parents and their siblings.
We have been creating birds for our Summer Celebration Event in the Derby Arboretum in August.
These are the papier mache birds

Flowers @ St James Infants

We spent 5 weeks working at St James Infants with Year 2 children creating flowers for our installations on the park for our Arboretum Spring Fest.
Here are a few of the pictures 

Luminate Lantern and Light Festival

This was a magical event in the Derby Arboretum Park.
We had the brilliant St James School Choir sing 2 lovely songs in the Orangery before our stunning lantern procession around the park accompanied by our 2 violinists, Kathy and Helen and led by our very own, Ice Queen.

Lanterns @ St James

We spent a day working with Year 4 children and Mrs Lloyla creating lanterns for our Luminate Lantern and Light Festival. Lots of willow, tissue and glue.

Bulb Planting with St James School

We spent the morning with the children from St James Junior School planting crocuses with the Derby Rotary Club in the Derby Arboretum Park. The crocuses are part of the 'End Polio' Campaign that the club are involved in.

making holes with a dibber

planting the bulbs

Good job done, now back to school

St James School Teacups

We had a few days at the end of term to create sculptures for our anniversary celebration in the Derby Arboretum Park.
We worked with 30 children to create 3 giant teacups using chicken wire and gummed tape.
Well done to all the children who helped make them look great. Here are some pics of them in the first stages.

All Around The World

We spent 5 days working with all the key-stage 2 classes at St James Juniors school to create a giant globe to celebrate International Food Week. We also found out that there are around 27 different countries represented in the school, wow!!

We learnt about the continents, countries and ocean, we had a large world map to consult and we had two small toy globes to check we had all the countries in the correct place.

Here are some of the globe-making stages.