Aug 21, 2023 | Art & Music Outdoors, Early Years Outdoors, Technologies
In 2001, on a Comenius outdoor learning course in Sweden, I had the opportunity to try felting. It was a disaster. I managed to dye my wool using fresh young birch leaves and carded it reasonably well. But the felting process was my failing. I returned home, my...
Sep 11, 2013 | Art & Music Outdoors
I was getting quietly disappointed that I hadn’t come across any little community art gems lately to adapt and use within a school context. That changed last weekend when I went for a walk at Drum Castle in Aberdeenshire. Quietly tucked away on one woodland walk...
Nov 25, 2012 | Art & Music Outdoors, Community Involvement
Yarn bombing is a growing world-wide trend with guerilla knitters everywhere taking up the challenge of giving local spaces and places funky feel makeover. Whilst I had seen various photos and videos (Google image the term for a dazzling array) about this new art...
Sep 23, 2011 | Art & Music Outdoors
Many years ago, my mum off-loaded all her unwanted fleeces onto me. I spent many happy hours experimenting and having fun exploring their potential for learning and play. She introduced me to peg looms which have “kid-friendly-must-do” written all over...
Sep 10, 2011 | Art & Music Outdoors, Early Years Outdoors
Felting stones is a simple activity to do outside. It requires very little wool. Thus it’s very economical if you have to buy it -and gets quick results. It’s a messy outdoor activity as children need to walk about as they felt the wool and this sheds...