Planning workshops

Initially planning a workshop was a really intimidating prospect but as we were shown some ideas in the first few weeks of the project and having a team to bounce ideas off it’s not too bad anymore.

I wasn’t in last week so I didn’t plan a workshop, I helped Joel with his origami frogs and the children really enjoyed it. I think it worked well with the small groups of children rotating around the different workshops so they got a chance to experience the different activity’s. Also we got to work with all of the children. I enjoyed doing the workshop more than I thought I would, I was terrified of the kids being really unmanageable but they were so good and really enthusiastic, it definitely made me want to go back.

I had the idea of creating a workshop working with air drying clay, I mainly work with clay in university so I thought I could show them the skills I have in that area and create a workshop around mythical monsters as I know they have already done a collage project around that, using different materials to texture the clay. I was lucky in a way that I got to see everybody else’s first workshops, that made me feel more confident in planning them. I think the idea for next week’s workshop is the children will create their own aliens to be put on some sort of outdoor game. We haven’t properly figured out what that will be exactly yet.

I think next week’s workshop will be quiet challenging, it will make the children think more about what they are going to do before just drawing the first thing they think of. Thinking about colour, form, texture and scale.