Cooperatives Fortnight

We worked at the Cooperative Store on Burton Road in Derby, to promote Cooperatives Fortnight.
We asked customers why they shopped at the Coop and asked them to write it on a leaf for the display.
We had a very good morning.

Tepees @ Derby Univeristy

We worked with 3 groups of Early Years Students and a group of students visiting from Athens over 3 days.
We created 4 tepees using bamboo,willow, recycled plastics and fabrics.The tepees are sited at the top of the driveway to the university.
It was very enjoyable to work with all the students.

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 

University Tepees with Early Years Students

Back again to work with the Early Years Students at Derby University, it was a very hot day, so they did well to get the tepees finished. Well done.

Woven butterflies and fishes with Riddings Nursery and Infant School

We worked with 120 Foundation and Reception children at Riddings Nursery and Infant School on a fun day project for the Play and Recycling Centre. The theme was 'colour and recycling', each child made a bird or a fish using simple threading and strip weaving techniques.

    

Tepee Weaving @ St Mary's Primary

We spent a day working with Year 1 children at St Mary's Primary School in Derby to create a giant tepee taking inspiration from artist, Andy Goldsworthy. We looked at the colours and circular pattern of Andy's designs and chose recycled fabric strips to create the woven circles.
The children enjoyed sitting inside the tepee when it was completed.

Sun catching in the Orangery

May half term saw us catching the sun in our creative workshops in the Orangery in the Arboretum park.

Island Sculpture

We spent 2 whole days moulding and making the Isle of Coll with St Mary's Catholic Primary School - Year 2 classes.

They had great fun scrunching newspaper, dipping gumstrip in water and gluing gooey tissue paper.

Bags of chips

gumstrip dipping

By the end of the first day we had a sculpture resembling a snow-covered landscape.

gooey tissue

The second day we created the coloured landscape of cliffs, hills and green fields as well as buildings and animals.

A big thank you to Miss Williams and Miss McCallum and the children in Year 2 for working so hard and creating such a wonderful Isle of Coll, Katie Morag would be very pleased with our artwork!!