When you see a sign that says Beware it's handy to have a Storyteller in your party.
Luckily Carole and the children from Year 2 Priory Lower School
had Allan Davies from A Word in Edgeways in their carriage at the Northampton & Lamport Railway
He brought us tall tales and magical music.
We up-cycled empty cardboard snack boxes
creating colourful collages with tissue paper
cutout paper shapes
and glue
Having made boxes fit for treasure
we set about creating
fabric rosettes
to carry back to school.
The children said "This is the best day ever!"
We all remembered the joy of a tale well told and a world where a cardboard box could provide scope for the imagination. The carriage may have been stationary but our minds were full of the sights, sounds, smells and textures of an old railway line which once carried people and goods through an even older landscape.
Thank you so much for our story telling and art session today. The recycled boxes and rosettes that we made were a big hit and the children have shown them to the other children who want to make some too - a possible autumn term activity!
ReplyDeleteThe children love being in the old railway carriage and Allan's storytelling, especially with the musical accompaniment.
I hope we can do this again in the future. It is an activity that the children would not normally get to do in a place that they would beunlikely to visit, out into the Northamptonshire wilds!
Mrs Louise Youngman