There's nothing worse than staring at a blank piece of paper or a blank blog page come to that, so let's get started.
This blog is a place to capture the thinking and happenings around a group of enthusiastic parents and teachers staging a Little House of Fairy Tales at St Saviour's School, London in The Autumn of 2011.
We'll be developing and sharing ideas and inspiration, asking for help and dishing out jobs as we go on.
We hope to inspire other parents at other schools to feel they can and should and will something similar.
So... watch this space
And please do comment and add to the conversation around this exciting project. It's OURS to share and enjoy and for our children to benefit from. There's a role for EVERYONE.
SOME THOUGHTS AND IDEAS Please add to this!!::::
ReplyDeleteThemes for the event:
Darwinism, A Voyage of Discovery, Lewis Carroll's "Drink Me Eat Me Touch Me Feel Me", Fillius Fogg, Round the World in 80 Days, Topsy Turvy, Helter skelter, A Fair ground of Ceative Fun
Possible Names:
The Little House Of Fairy Tales 2011 Presents
..."St Saviours Guide to our World, and lots of other interesting stuff!"
..."The Topsy Turvy Helter Skelter Day of Discovery 2011"
..."The creative treasure chest" (needs working on...)
..."The Creative Saviours" (play on words...)
..."Ark Creative" "The Creative Ark"
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ReplyDeletePossible creative experiences (please add or remove from this idea...)
ReplyDeleteThe Heliocentric Room
Installation:
Blacked out space black paper over windows/doors (possible 3 pin ikea night lights plugged into wall for low floor lighting).
hanging planets (paper mache) to roughly accurate scale and colour with small battery powered leds lighting them locally from above. (only need 9, and are cheap to buy online).
lots of small obstacles on floor symbolising space debri (paper balls Health Safety conscious of course).
Huge Sun on back wall (floor to ceiling) made of 250 approx yellow A5 or post-it notes. hanging pens on string in front of the Sun. 2 spot-lights get switched on directed at the sun at a given moment to describe the power of the suns rays.
Experience:
Kids enter room
experience the planets in 3D
experience the debri and stars and rocks floating in space
experience the impact of the Sun as lights switched on
An adult could narrate some info on Nicolas Capernicus's unproven theory, the previous theory of the universe, and why no one believed him because Gravity hadnt been discovered to validate till 100 years later by Einstein!
...or could just discribe the universe in a fun creative way...
Creativity:
Then the kids could use the pens and write or draw on the post-it notes and describe a feeling, an idea, an object from their imagination which the room evokes.
All these notes could then be used for something like a chapter in a st saviours creative ideas book 2011 (no idea what...someone help here)
Comments:
There are some interesting books which might give food for thought on how the notes could be used:
Future Systems 'For Inspiration Only'
some other ideas:
ReplyDeleteLittle Disco: small record player with small speaker, happy 7" records, tiniest dancefloor (cardboard box unfolded)
kids Join in and bust-a-move on the tiniest dancefloor around. And see record spinning which is rare these days!
Little Bit Magic: Anyone out there know a few card or 'watch the ball' tricks to enlighten a moment?
Little Deep Sea: lots of plastercine and colourful putty, kids can make their own deep sea creatures, which havent been discovered yet.
Drew's idea:
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Intricate artworks
installation:
a couple of tables grouped together, enough to accomodate each group
large faded printout of an artwork, such as an intricate etching or pen drawing, broken into grids laying on tables
lots of pens on table for kids to use
smaller copy of this artwork also pinned on the wall as a guide to what they are contributing in the drawing of.
Cost:
1x large printout 1x small wall printout
1x box of pens
Experience:
kids can intricately trace over the artwork within one of the grids.
an adult can after this period of concentration explain how each of the small grids the kids have been working on are a tiny part of this artwork on the wall.
Drew possibly has an idea how can also be explained how a microchip or microfilm is.
Creativity:
artistic/ detailing/ intricacy of art (needs some more work here)