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Aycorn East

22/9/2014

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Last Thursday was the first meeting of Aycorn east, arts and young children regional network. I delivered a workshop alongside presentations by Charlottle Arculus of Magic Adventure and Joy Haynes of Norwich Puppet Theatre. 

In the east of England we have a wealth of enthusiasm, expertise and appetite for high quality early years arts practice, across all art forms.  This network will hopefully grow to include other venues, artists, nurseries and organisations with passion for this exciting and crucial sector. 

You can find Aycorn East on Facebook and Twitter to get updates on future events. 

This photo was taken near the end of my workshop. We are all lying on the floor looking up at the extraordinary "thing" we have just made. Tower workshops are not only a great way to work with young children but are a fantastic team building, ice breaking, mind opening activity for everyone. 

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Photo by Maureen Brookson
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Just4Dads

13/3/2013

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What a fine tower, not wafty at all but a sturdy bit of team work executed by the members of Just4Dads, a weekly stay and play session for dads and their preschool children. There was a teeny bit of competitiveness which was actively encouraged and the result was the tallest tower built... so far. 

(And they make a mean bacon and sausage sandwich at snack time too!)
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Music, Singing, Dance, Play

23/10/2012

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more shameless self promotion...

16/10/2012

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Getting some more promotional material for a networking frenzy at the EarlyArts UnConference I am going to in November. Really looking forward to running a workshop there about creative play and working collaboratively with families. 

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The game plan

17/4/2012

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Looks like small world play but in actual fact it is a fairly sized room transformed into a giants games board. We didn't know what the game was before we started but we had our expert under5s and parents to help us discover some of its possibilities. It is a work in progress we will be refining it over the next few weeks. 
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Lights and boxes

26/3/2012

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I love the simplicity of these creative play sessions. It is a joy to see young children and their grown ups playing with everyday objects in such imaginative ways. If only the box was big enough for the grown ups to get into too!
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The Faraway tree

23/3/2012

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Dough Island

10/2/2012

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More pictures from last week's session at Sure Start in Norwich can be found here... http://spontaneous-communities.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/dough-island.html
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Cars, trees, pizza, beaches, roads and a zoo

7/2/2012

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The Great Clay Mound

25/1/2012

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It was really exciting this week at our Spontaneous Communities workshop as we had a really fantastic turn out. I think we had 10 families along which meant the energy in the room sky rocketed!

 Mandy had planned a brilliant session using clay, toys and recycled stuff for the group to play with. A mad metropolis sprung up out of the ground with tubes, funnels, cars and all sorts of creatures all vying for a bit of space in the great clay mound. 

For those that found the city life too hectic they took themselves off and built satellite towns. It was like watching medieval town planning in motion. An amazing day to document. There were so many good pictures from the day that I couldn't choose, so I have put most of them here in a slide show.
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