Arts Desire with the Creative Art Project in Ilkeston

We also worked with the Creative Arts Project in Ilkeston, creating trinket boxes and egg box animals.

Here are some of the designs.

Chaddesden Supporters

We had a busy workshop with the Chaddesden Carers creating batik onto paper to make lanterns.

Everyone was keen to get involved and thoroughly enjoyed the session.

Happy Divali

Well done to all the children in Reception and Year 1 at Ladywood Primary School, Kirk Hallam and in Year 1 and Year 2 at Draycott Primary School, for creating beautiful batik pieces to make our wonderful banners for Divali.

They were displayed at Erewash Museum last weekend at a Divali Celebration.
Families  who came along were able to create sand pictures for the Rangoli Display in the museum courtyard.

To Everything There Is A Season...

We had a great time working with Year 4 classes at St James Junior School on a Seasonal Tree project.

We spent 3 days creating, printing, sieving, pulping, fusing leaves, wrapping fabric and wool and taking wood rubbings with crayon.

It all went together to create a splendid tree which is now growing in the library open space area.

Thanks to all the staff and children for working so hard. 

The tree will be created into a winter tree for the Year 4 Narnia project.

Green Men in the Redhills

Green Men Making

We spent 3 days working with the children at Redhill Primary School, Ockbrook, Derbyshire.
They were creating a Woodland Forest in their school and needed some Green Creatures to peep out from the foliage.

We created a large Green Man figure with the junior classes and worked with Year 5 to create little creatures.
Here are some of the photos from the project, we all had a great time!

Making the Frame

Packing out the frame with newspaper

Our finished Green Man

Olympic figures

In the last few weeks we completed an epic project working with every child in the St James Federation of schools.
We made 6 x Yr 5 sized  Olympian figures depicting sports suggested by the children.
We had a terrific time and the children worked very hard. It felt very strange not turning up at the school on the Monday morning.
Here are 2 of the figures........and no none of the children are inside.

Torch Making Workshops

Have a look at the photo gallery of our torch making workshops at the Silk Mill Museum. We worked with 28 schools, 267 young people and 49 teaching staff. Phew!! We also delivered 5 more torch workshops directly in schools and worked on 4 park events to make mini torches. Click on the link below. http://www.derbycityssp.co.uk/gallery/view/5553/

Arboretum Workshops

We will be delivering arts and crafts activities at the Arboretum Park in Derby during the year.
Come and be creative with Spiral
To book a place - contact the Arboretum Cafe
Arb-park@hotmail.com

2012 ARBORETUM WORKSHOPS – 1pm-3pm

Tues 14th Feb - Valentine heart cards and bunting
Sat 18th Feb -Paper mache birds and Nesting boxes
Sat 17th March -Decorated garden pots/Tissue paper flowers
Sat 7th April -Wonderland peep boxes and Rabbit masks
Sat 16th June -Bouncing butterflies and Beetlebug kites
Tues 31st July -Holiday notebooks and Summer postcards

Artworks at Wirksworth

We spent a busy 2 days up at the Wirksworth Festival being arty with Wirksworth's young creatives.

Animal Art ~ Monkey Masks, Crazy Crocodiles, Weaving Birds

Puppet Art ~ Pop-up Insect Puppets, Jumping Jack Horses, People Puppets

Musical Art ~ Groovy Guitars, Shiny Shakers, Twirling Drums

Flying Art ~ Whirling Windsocks

Everyone very busy creating

Very attractive monkey masks!

Woven Birds

Insect Pop Ups

Groovy Guitars

Pour the lentils in here Maureen!

Choosing smiley face stickers.

A big thank you to Headteacher Mrs Poyser

for allowing us to the school and for making us feel so welcome.

Under the Sea at Quad

Spiral Arts delivered an 'Under the Sea' workshop at the Quad Arts and Media Centre in Derby
Woven fish, stretchy fish, mobile fish, spiral jellyfish...very fishy indeed!

Derwent Stepping Stones 20th Anniversary Party

Derwent Stepping Stones were celebrating their 20th Anniversary, we had a great time creating bunting to string around the centre with the children and parents.



Bird and Butterfly Bunting



Busy with Birdies

Palace Post 7

The french windows of the ballroom were edged with the finest hand carved woodwork, painted gold, it made a magnificent frame  for the view outside 

Palace Post 6

Yesterday evening 15 cubs and their leaders came to the Winter Palace. Here is a peep at some of the things they did.

and what we did earlier in the day...

tea at the Palace!!