Lanterns, fireworks, elves.... it must be Christmas Tide!
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This activity is an extension of "taking a line for a walk".
Here we have parents and children working together, but it could be suitable for same age groups as well. One of you holds the pen and is passive, the other holds their hand and takes it and the pen for a walk around the page. After a minute or two swap roles. It is a really interesting exercise. Dominant personalities can struggle with letting go, and followers get the opportunity to take the lead. Working with families it is apparent that the adult is not always the dominant party and vice versa, so it provides a really good level playing field where we can step out of our usual roles, whatever they might be. A day in a cardboard cave.
It was dark and quite cool (the school's heating was on the blink!) which added to the atmosphere. There was a "fire" - or LED lights, tissue paper and twigs - to add to the feel and give us a little bit of light to do our drawing by. The children were all really excited to be given walls and floors to draw on. There was lots of energy in the room and the first couple of groups seemed to need to make marks on as many bits of wall as they could before settling down to some more focussed drawing. The installation has been left up at the school for a few days, so parents, staff and other children can come and take a peek at the cardboard cave. We were thinking of family sayings and positive messages like "Chin up" and " Be yourself". This one is "You'll never walk alone" We also had " Go-Go Power Rangers!" We masking taped them together and strung them up in the school to send our positive messages out into the world. We are going to develop these and pick some to make into fabric flags that will hopefully last a bit longer!
Some close ups of an enormous group painting that happened in Lowestoft the other day with children and their carers. It was amazing fun and the whole piece is stunning. We also made a little "istopmotion" time lapse movie of its creation which I will post up here soon.
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