The Hazel Spider
The mystery of the missing hand warmer - a gentle and humorous story of magic and reality, with fairies and goblins interacting with real people. This is a story woven around the ideas contributed by children and events. Ideal for reading by adult or child, or as a basis for an adult to tell the story. The book is illustrated with simple ink drawings which tell the story in their own right.
The Lumpy Gingerbread Man
This is the first story of the little known Lumpy Gingerbread Man, the Gingerbread Man's brother. The Lumpy Gingerbread Man has a similar journey to the traditional Gingerbread man, but he escapes the fox. The Lumpy Gingerbread Man is bound to appear somewhere near you in a park or garden as he has lots of adventures! This story was first devised to create a platform for nursery children to take indoor literature into outdoor play and creativity. The children went outside and built houses for the lumpy gingerbread man, and devised stories and play around him. This even involved children digging a river for the lumpy gingerbread man to jump over. A good book for Forest school activity.
Bagtie and Withy Art and Technology
This is a workbook for teachers in Primary Schools. It shows how wire and willow can be used by Primary School children to make almost anything in art and design and technology.
The book describes and shows the basic but simple skill elements in wire and willow to teach to the children.
Once the children have learned these basic skills they are able to design and make, by themselves, anything within their imagination.
The materials and processes shown empower children to lead their own learning, experiment, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes and fully extend their creative abilities.
Teachers no longer need to template things for the children to make. All they need to do is teach the basic skills shown in the book. The children decide what to make and how to make it.
The process provokes strong understanding of materials and structures.
The children become more engaged and the DT/Art project can be easily associated with all other curricular areas.
