Category Archives: With the Kids

Brancepeth Castle Summer Fete

July 28, 2024Events, With the KidsColour, Festival, Workshopcrookedhalocrafts

I have spent three days at the wonderful Brancepeth Castle, where I was selling my art and running mandala workshops.

Animal masks

May 28, 2024Masks, Paper & Card, With the Kids, WorkshopsAnimals, Festival, glue gun, Workshopcrookedhalocrafts

Whenever I go to deliver a workshop, my favourite part is always what people do with the templates and materials that I bring in that I would have never thought of, and in this workshop some of the adaptations were fabulous! Although I am disappointed not to have got a picture of the shark that some parents had to help their child make!

Needle felting Robins

May 28, 2024Christmas, With the Kids, WorkshopsAnimals, needle felting, Workshopcrookedhalocrafts

A chance to introduce people to new skills is always a fun workshop, at Christmas I delivered some needle felting workshops to create robins. Participants had a chance of various colours for the body and wings, along with for the famous red breast of the robin. Using wire of different colours they got legs and a beak, and in some cases a crown!

Mini Beast Masks

May 28, 2024Masks, Paper & Card, Uncategorized, With the Kids, WorkshopsAnimals, Designing, Festival, glue guncrookedhalocrafts

Over the May bank holiday weekend, I spent many happy hours delivering workshops at the Centre for Life for visitors to create their own Mini-beast mask. At the start of the year I created some prototypes and then used these to create some printable templates and stencils that the public would be able to use to design their own mini-beast mask

I created 5 prototypes to begin with, an ant, a spider, a bee, a butterfly, and a ladybird. They were all slightly different style of mask covering the face in different ways, sometimes sharing eyes with the mini-beast and sometimes having their own eyes.

Over the three days of workshops the participants enjoyed being able to create they own designs using the printed templates or card stencils, using glue guns and other tools along with a variety of materials to create their own individual mask.

2023 Halloween fun

February 28, 2024Halloween, Paper & Card, With the Kids, WorkshopsColour, Halloween, Hand drawn, Workshopcrookedhalocrafts

In October I ran a series of Halloween themed Mandala workshops, with adult groups and as part of the ‘Fit and Fun’ activities for children at Bullion Hall. I had a great time seeing how people use the same templates to create their own designs. All of the mandalas as ever were hand drawn by myself and then printed out ready for people to use.