Day 16

Today was the final day of summer scheme!

(All together now "awww"!!)

We got our totem pole up and it was just as fantastic as we expected!

In the afternoon we had a party with a disco, treats to eat and games to play! It was a great was to round off the summer!

Huge thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make the summer scheme such brilliant fun!

Day 15....

We can hardly believe we're at the penultimate day of summer scheme!

This morning we finished our paper tee pees, they're really lovely, much more colourful in real life than in this photo!

We also made headbands with feathers in them to wear at our pow wow tomorrow!

This afternoon we were visited by 'Owl Magic' - at was all about the feathers today!!

David and Colin bought 5 different owl for us to meet! We felt so lucky that we got to be so close to their beautiful birds! We got to hold them on our arm and to stroke them, we couldn't believe how soft they were!

Everyone went home feeling great after a really exciting afternoon, we'd recommend Owl Magic to anyone it was a fantastic experience!

Wig Wam Bam!!!

Here's another sneak preview!

This time it's of our tee pees, we made the sheets of multi coloured tissue on day 13, they'll be dry and ready to roll around a tripod frame next Tuesday.

These pictures were taken in the art cupboard with an LED light inside the tent, imagine how beautiful a village of tee pees will look! Hopefully next week we'll have a picture of that to show you!

Day 14

This morning we made life size Native American figures, we made a Chief, a medicine man and a squaw!

We worked in quite large groups which ment that we had to work hard to cooperate with each other!

Aren't they FAB!!

This afternoon we had a creative writing session. We worked in groups and created poems inspired by Native American writing.

We used percussion instruments to turn our poems into a chant and performed them!

sneak preview...

Shh!!
Don't tell anyone
that you've seen this!!
I couldn't wait
to see how the
totem pole was
going to look!
Now I know
the answer...

AMAZING!!

shine

Please click here to view our short film shine

This film was the start of our creative writing groups and our multi media work, we are still very very proud of it!

Hope you enjoy it!

Day 12

What a busy day we had!

It started with a music and movement group with the fabulous Linda Payne! We alway enjoy Linda's groups and feel really lucky that she comes to work with us! We had a really active session, we worked as part of a group and performed solo! Linda always finishes with time to relax, and usually we need it!!

During the afternoon we contined work on our Native American artwork... we continued painting, we can't wait to see all our individual work combine to make a fantastic group piece!

Day 11

Today we got some paint onto our totem poles, what a difference a bit of colour made! They're starting to look fantastic!

We like the fact that you can see the writing on the box in this picture! It shows that although for a while it appeared to be just a big collection of cardboard there was always going to be a creative outcome!

This afternoon the weather was terrible! We should have had outdoor games, but we had to have a quick rethink!

We played board games and did puzzles, some of also baked. We had lots of really ripe bananas so it made sense to use them up, we could have used recipes from we are cooks. They're in the oven at the minute and they smell DELICIOUS!!!

WE ARE CHILDREN!!!

It's not just been adults who have enjoyed a summer full of activities!
Our Children's Services team have been running a busy, fun filled summer scheme for the last month!
They've done huge amounts of fab things... trips and outings, baking and making, arts and crafts, sports and games to name a few!

Watch this space for more photo's coming soon!


We took advantage of good weather when we got it to play outside. These photo's are of our 'graffiti' drawings inspired by a trip to Kelburn Castle where we saw the graffiti project!

Day 10

This morning we have continued to work on our totem poles!

These photo's were taken of our work drying outside, we joined them together so that we had an idea of how our totem pole might look when it's finished!

This afternoon was quiz time...

Today's victorious team with 69 points were 'The Surviving Bunch'! Well done guys!

Day 9

(We went to Loch Lomond for the day on day 8 in case you're wondering!!)



Today we started work on our 3D totem poles, we are building them using cardboard boxes that Ali has been hoarding forever!

We used wet tissue and all sorts of bits and pieces from the collage box to make raised outline shapes, then we used plaster of paris bandages over the top of them. It was a bit chaotic, nearly 30 people, plus plaster, plus bowls of water could have been a real disaster but we did really well and made it though the session without any mishaps!
We've still got some work to do with the plaster tomorrow, then we'll leave our work to dry out till next week ready for painting! Already we can't wait to see how they're going to look!

This owls beak fell a bit flat first time round so we added another layer of cardboard to make it really stand out!