Made for everyone in our hour of need – watch parts 1 and 2 of The Here, There and Everywhere Show and put a smile on your face!
Part 1:
Part 2:
And from earlier in the year:
Tall Tales 2020
Thankyou, well done and congratulations to everyone who took part in the Tall Tales project this year. Here are some pics to remember everything we did…
And here are the three episodes, in case you missed any of them:
From 24th – 28th September artwork featuring in the films were installed in New Mills Festival – for the Light Up New Mills weekend. Here are the two soundscapes that went with the artwork:
DYSTOPIA: Imagine the worst version of 2070:
UTOPIA: Imagine the best version of 2070
Click here if you are interested in joining the project, or making things to send us.
Click here for the Risk Assessment for face-to-face workshops – things you need to know.
If you are a member of the project you will get a text message telling you when there is new info on here.
If you would like to join the project you should email sophie@highpeakarts.org and she will get in touch. Click here for sign up info.
First up here is a mindfulness exercise from Frances Walker, which is designed to go with her Tree of Life exercise, but can equally be useful on it’s own. Feeling stressed? Wound up? Mind racing? Listen to Frances…
Project eARTh @ Home – Jivja Soma Mashe
WEEK 4 – June 29th
Here we are for our fourth outing of World Artists for World Kindness Day Project with artist Amanda Whewell.
We start with activities inspired by Jivya Soma Mashe from India. Activity sheet PDFs are available below and here is a short film demonstrating the activities!
Project eARTh @ home – Frida Kahlo
WEEK 3 – June 23rd
Here we are for our third outing of World Artists for World Kindness Day Project with artist Amanda Whewell.
We start with activities inspired by Frida Kahlo from Mexico. Activity sheet PDFs are available below and here is a short film demonstrating the activities!
Project eARTh @ home – Paul Klee
WEEK 2 – June 15th
Here we are for our second outing of World Artists for World Kindness Day Project with artist Amanda Whewell.
We start with activities inspired by Paul Klee from Germany / Switzerland. Activity sheet PDFs are available below and here is a short film demonstrating the activities!
Paul Klee from Germany/ Switzerland, 1879 – 1940 (Click for PDF!)
Enjoy!
Next week, Paul Klee.
Project eARTh @ home – Sonia Delaunay
WEEK 1 – June 8th
Here we are at the beginning of our World Artists for World Kindness Day Project with artist Amanda Whewell.
We start with activities inspired by Sonia Delaunay from Russia. Activity sheet PDFs are available below and here is a short film demonstrating the activities!
Sonia Delaunay from Russia, 1885 – 1979 (Click for PDF!)
Enjoy!
Next week, Paul Klee.
Family Fun Friday! Bookmaking!
May 29th, and it’s hotter than Rome in the High Peak, so don’t forget your sunscreen as you enjoy our fifth installment of fun creative activities for families with young children from Karl, Frances & Margit our Early Years specialists – something to explore together during these extraordinary times!
This week our Family Fun Friday activity is Bookmaking!!
For our final activity we’re showing you how to make a simple book with craft items that you might find around the house. The original project first took the children through the language of books –
author, illustrator, front, back, spine
– and ended in them creating their own book to share with others.
Depending on the age-range we made various types of book but the zig-zag style, with it’s simple concertina fold, is by far the easiest to make and can easily be enjoyed by everyone.
If you have any rubber stamps or home printing kits in the cupboards then now’s the time to dig them out but not essential – pens, pencils, crayons, stickers, collage and any craft items can all used on their own.
To celebrate completing the books we made reading dens with the children so that they could enjoy them alongside a variety of favourite commercial books from the classroom book corner. Some of our dens were in cosy areas indoors and a few were even created in exciting locations outdoors. We hope that you’ve enjoyed our online version of the For the Love of Books project and we really look forward to working with you on our new Early Years and Families book making project when the time comes.
And here are Margit’s activity cards:
As always our Family Fun Friday activities were originally designed for young children and their families but they can easily be undertaken by all the household during the lockdown. Let us know how you get on with BOOKMAKING!
We hope that you’ve enjoyed our online version of the For the Love of Books project and we really look forward to working with you on our new Early Years and Families book making project when the time comes.
These activities have been supported by the Ragdoll Foundation.
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 1
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 2
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 3
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 4
Family Fun Friday! Shadows!
Back to glorious sunshine in the High Peak this week. But to help cheer up any dull moments, here is our fourth installment of fun creative activities for families with young children from Karl, Frances & Margit our Early Years specialists – something to explore together during these extraordinary times!
This week our Family Fun Friday activity is Shadow Puppets!
Playing with light and creating shadows at home is one of the simplest and most satisfying creative activities that we can all do. It’s lots of fun and is bursting with open-ended opportunities for children of all ages to explore.
Young children are particularly fascinated with exploring shapes and textures – watch how Frances creates interesting shapes with everyday objects from around the house in our first video.
Older ones enjoy creating characters than can ‘sing’ and ‘dance’ and ‘act’ in their own little performances. This character puppetry performance was undertaken during our original project, so this week we’ve also included the For The Love Of Books film that we made with Mark and Benn from Metro Media at St George’s C of E Primary School in New Mills. The children of the Early Years department at St George’s really enjoyed this activity and we hope that you give it a go at home during these exceptional times and beyond.
And here are Margit’s activity cards:
As always our Family Fun Friday activities were originally designed for young children and their families but they can easily be undertaken by all household members during the lockdown. Let us know how you get on with SHADOW PUPPETS!
These activities have been supported by the Ragdoll Foundation.
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 1
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 2
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 3
Family Fun Fridays! Marbling!
We hope you’re recovering from the blast of overnight freezes in the High Peak this week. To help you do that here is our third installment of fun creative activities for families with young children from Karl, Frances & Margit our Early Years specialists – something to explore together during these extraordinary times!
This week our Family Fun Friday activity is Marbling! We’ve adapted the original activity from For the Love of Books to use things found around the home. We were particularly inspired by a book called ‘Space Walk’ by Salina Yoon and in the project we went on to make an interactive creative play space for the children to explore life on another planet.
Marbling is instantly gratifying. Young children gasp and giggle in wonder at the beautiful transformation that occurs to a plain piece of paper as they dip it into the ink tray and adults marvel at the impressive results.
No two pieces of marbled paper are alike and there are lots of things you can make with the end product: bookmarks, greetings cards, backgrounds for further paintings – and, here, an other worldly planet to stick up on your wall or window!
And here are Margit’s activity cards:
As always our Family Fun Friday activities were originally designed for young children and their families but they can easily be undertaken by all household members during the lockdown. Let us know how you get on with Marbling!
These activities have been supported by the Ragdoll Foundation.
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 1
Click here for Family Fun Friday week 2
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