2009

Y Bont Spring Issue 29 www.clybiauplantcymru.org ISSN 1464-4282

In this issue

• Regional Focus • Play, Learn & Grow Healthy • Training • Funding • Get Crafty! A company limited by guarantee 4296436 Registered Charity 1093260 and more! Working in partnership with: Pembrokeshire Children’s Information Service (CIS) is getting older...

Within the fi rst few months of 2009 Pembrokeshire Children’s Information Service will have a new name and be evolving into Pembrokeshire Family Information Service (FIS)

Issue 29 Spring 2009 In this issue...

Pembrokeshire FIS...... 2 In addition to holding information on childcare, early year’syear’s education and training in Pembrokeshire, the FIS will hold wide-ranging information for parents and carers of children aged up to their 20th birthday. NMT Nursery Awards...... 3 The name of Family Information Service (FIS) will refl ect the extended age Fous on West Wales...... 4 range that the service will now support. The FIS would be most grateful if out of school clubs in Pembrokeshire Focus on North Wales...... 5 continue to advise of any changes such as opening days, contact details or costs to enable us to keep our records up to date. Receiving timely Focus on South East Wales...6 information on any changes really does help us to ensure that we provide accurate and up to date information to parents and carers who are looking for quality childcare provision in Pembrokeshire. Training...... 7 Contact details: Pembrokeshire Family Information Service (FIS) Play, Learn & Grow...... 36 – 38 High Street Haverfordwest Healthy...... 8-9 SA61 2DA Information Line: 01437 763344 Funding...... 10 - 11 New Email Address: fi [email protected]

New WebsiteWebsite Address: www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/fiwww.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/fi s Get Crafty!...... 12

Clwb Plant Gellilydan and Maentwrog in Gwynedd were very fortunate to receive a grant from the Comic Relief Fund for a total of £5,000.00. The grant will be used to buy new and exciting play equipment for the children and subsidise staff salaries. A company limited by guarantee 4296436 Registered Charity 1093260 Clwb Plant Gellilydan a Maentwrog provides after Registered Offi ce: school care to children in two very isolated rural villages Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, in the Snowdonia National Park. They provide a range Bridge House, Station Road, Llanishen, of activities and allow more children and parents to Cardiff. CF14 5UW access affordable childcare. Tel: 029 2074 1000 Fax: 029 2074 1047 Email: [email protected] Comic Relief have helped thousands of people Website: www.clybiauplantcymru.org in the UK and around the world.

2 Y Bont Congratulations to Debbie Forrest The judges commented that in a close contest, they were impressed by the and Helen Mathias of Happy Days company’s truly innovative growth, development and high quality, clearly setting Childcare (Wales) Limited who have the standard for childcare in their region. recently received the Award for Nursery Business Development at the Happy Days Childcare (Wales) Limited provide after school and holiday clubs prestigious NMT Nursery Awards in as well as their core day nursery business in Pembrokeshire. London.

The New Year brings new staff to Caerphilly The New Year in Caerphilly brought with it a new Development Offi cer, although Carol Charles will be well known to all out of school clubs in NB Caerphilly, as she has been the Support Worker for the last four years. Carol regards this as a really exciting opportunity building on the work that For those people she has been doing for some time in her role as support worker, and now who have not yet expanding into the area of out of school childcare development. She is looking forward to continuing the good relationships that have been built sent in their Help Us with you all. to Help You please “It only seems a short time since I was a Play worker myself in Cardiff, which gave me the understanding of the challenges but also rewards of note that there is no being a Play worker.”

need to use a stamp Over the coming weeks, Carol will be visiting all clubs in Caerphilly with if your return it using the new Support Worker, Claire Harris. Claire’s background, which goes back a number of years working in the childcare sector, includes working the FREEPOST with MYM both at a Cylch Meithrin and Ti a Fi group, as a childminder and also as a daycare and out of school childcare provider. She has a wealth address given on of experience dealing with CSSIW issues and should be an asset to all the reverse of the clubs in Caerphilly. form. Carol would like to thank you for your continued support and Claire is looking forward to meeting all club staff and children

Y Bont 3 West Wales

African Penpals

Growing Children The assistant Playworker at Broadhaven after school club, Judy, Growing Seeds has recently returned from teaching at St.Joseph Millenium School in Tiddlywinks Childcare Centre based in Neath Port Talbot has been Tanzania. As a result of her visit, established for 13 years in the Swansea Valley and employs 22 staff. children from this Pembrokeshire after Tiddlywinks provides all aspects of childcare as well as being the local school club are now embarking on a Integrated Children’s Centre. The demand for their quality childcare new pen pal project and are writing to has proven to be so successful, they are now outgrowing their current the children in Tanzania. Parents have premises. given permission for their children to write and draw pictures and to develop Pictured are just one of the play activities they have undertaken with this activity to exchange cultures. g a r d e n i n g equipment provided Christmas Fund Raising by Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, Event a Success! funded by Neath The Sunshine After School club which Port Talbot Early is based at Swansea Children’s Centre, Years Development held a Christmas Fete to raise money and Childcare for the club and raised £190. Staff, Partnership. The parents and volunteers all worked hard club also participated to organise the event. Project worker in a Clybiau Plant Mandy Cutliffe said ‘The event was a Cymru Kids’ Clubs huge success. We were lucky to have Nature Zone training lots of lovely donations from parents course. and other community projects. The fete included stalls selling gifts, toys, jewellery, fair trade, and attracted lots of people from Clwyd school and the neighbourhood.’ Big Lottery funds

The children who regularly attend the Carmarthenshire clubs! club have been given the opportunity Many congratulations to Clwb Miri to decide what they would like to Meidrim, Clwb Gofal Cae’r Felin and have in the club and after much Llwynhendy Children’s Centre, all of discussion, they decided they would whom have recently received grants like to purchase a Nintendo Wii for the from the Awards for All programme. benefi t of all. 4 Y Bont North Wales

Healthy Living Event in Wrexham Plas Madoc’s fi rst Healthy Living Day was held at the Opportunity Centre just before the end of last term. 13 agencies in total attended the event, where around 100 people of all ages got advice, information and freebies. The aim of the day was to support people living in Plas Madoc and surrounding areas to fi nd out how they can lead healthy lifestyles, both physically and emotionally.

Sandra Thompson, Team Leader for North Wales and Val James, Training Offi cer for North Wales encouraged Active Club Pack Training in Denbighshire adults and youngsters from playgroups and afterschool clubs to make or try Playworkers in Denbighshire took advantage of the money awarded to fruit smoothies. Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids Clubs from the Denbighshire Wellbeing Grant when they attended the Active Club Pack training events that ran in In the afternoon the Diabetes XPERT November with more planned for January and February. programme tested people’s glucose levels and provided information on The Active Club Pack is a resource pack that helps playworkers encourage diabetes. Students from college gave children to take part in physical activities by providing step-by-step guidance complimentary Indian Head Massages sheets and templates for them to use to people attending the event, which everyone enjoyed. Three lucky prize Participants were asked to complete a baseline questionnaire during winners won a Jamie Oliver cookbook, the event to see what physical activities were provided prior to attending a fruit hamper and a basket of healthy the training. Those clubs that attended were then asked to complete the food toys. Due to the event being a questionnaire again three to four weeks after the training had taken place, great success, we will be holding a to see if there had been any marked improvement in provision after having Men’s Health Day in 2009. received the pack.

From the returned copies we have received so far the physical activities provided are on the increase in Denbighshire.

Following the fi rst event last November Sian Bennett who is the Health Improvement Offi cer from Denbighshire County Council sent in the following comments

“I enjoyed the training on Saturday.Saturday. It was clear to see that all the other participants also found it a fun and informative dayday.. The resource pack is easy to understand and full of great ideas. Hopefully the evaluation will confi rm that there has been an increase in the levels of physical activity.”activity.”

Y Bont 5 South East Wales

Jane Hutt AM Attends Cymru Cooks Celebration Event

Acorns to In October fi ve After School Clubs from the Vale of Glamorgan took Oaks part in the Cymru Cooks celebration Congratulations event held at Barry Comprehensive. to Nicola Jane Hutt AM who attended the Abraham and event thanked everyone for the Michelle Heard, success of the Cymru Cooks Project who successfully opened in the Vale. Acorns to Oaks After School Club in Bryntirion Children from Bear Pac After School Infants School, Bridgend Club Penarth passed around snacks in September.September. they had made with the free cooking sets given as part of the project. It is clear that Nicola Clubs also received a free Cymru and Michelle’sMichelle’s Cooks guide to setting up cookery enthusiasm and clubs. dedication to the club was going to be a huge benefi t in trying to open a Amanda Squire, Dietician from the club in just a couple of months. They ValeVale of Glamorgan, ran a healthy both worked very hard, enrolling snacks workshop with the children. themselves on training courses and Kevin Morgan, Development Offi cer completing funding applications, for Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, which meant that they were ready ran another workshop for children and able to open by September. The and playworkers on how to grow head teacher of Bryntirion Infants was your own food. a great support to both Nicola and Michelle and the club has gone from Angela Bliszko from ContinYouContinYou who strength to strength since. opened the event praised the clubs for taking part in the Cymru Cooks The club has received grants from the Project. Children’s Partnership and has just been awarded a Community Focused Schools’ grant to support them with their registration.

Nicola and Michelle’s passion for the club and the children that attend is quite apparent. We are currently working on the CSSIW registration documents and their enthusiasm still hasn’t diminished!

There is a very happy and relaxed atmosphere in the club and the food that the children are given is always varied and very appealing! They tuck into crudités and a chocolate dip with fruit! Both Nicola and Michelle put a lot of effort into every aspect of the club and I am sure that Acorns to Oaks will continue to be a big success.

Well done and congratulations to you both!!

6 Y Bont New CACHE Playwork Training course The awarding body CACHE have revised the level 2 course Clybiau Plant prospectus. The new qualifi cation in Playwork. The new course Cymru Kids’ delivered over more hours than has been revised so that it Clubs is a CACHE the old courses and allows time for refl ects the Playwork Principles approved training centre, which students to undertake placements and the National Occupational means that we have achieved and refl ective practice. Standards for Playwork. Students and maintained the standards will complete the following stages, set by CACHE for the delivery of For more details about the course, the Award, Certifi cate and Diploma their qualifi cations. Clybiau Plant please contact your Development in order to achieve a full level 2 Cymru Kids’ Clubs are offering Offi cer. qualifi cation. the “new “level 2 in its training Club workshops We can now offer the following workshops for clubs that are delivered in club time. Focus on Food for Kids, Children’s Interviewing Skills and First Aid for Kids’ (in South East Wales only) can be delivered by one of our trainers in club time. For details of costs and availability please contact your Development Offi cer.

All Wales Quality is also in development and we are working closely with Children Assurance Scheme in Wales who are managing this project. With the project due to for Out of School be complete in April, piloting of the Children’s Childcare and Open draft materials is now complete and we aim to put the fi nal draft on Participation Access Play our website in late February/early March for a short period so that We have been busy developing Many readers will be already stakeholders can see it. We will the new course on Children’s aware of the development of this then be reporting to WAG on the Participation. This 2-hour scheme. The Welsh Assembly fi nal scheme and putting forward workshop introduces playworkers Government awarded a tender to recommendations on how it can to the National Children and Young Clybiau Plant Cymru kids’ Clubs be implemented in the future. We People’s Participation Standards last summer to develop a quality look forward to having a quality Self Assessment Pack and explores assurance scheme for the out assurance scheme in place that is ways in which playworkers can of school childcare and open tailored to the needs of children in review their practice in relation to access play sector. An Early Wales and will keep you up to date participation in their settings. Look Years Quality Assurance scheme with progress. out for courses in your area.

Y Bont 7 Play, Learn, Grow Healthy

The Carmarthenshire Play Learn and childminders. Training and Grow Healthy project, (based in and support will be given to Ammanford/Carmarthen/Llanelli/ all children volunteering to Newcastle Emlyn), is a 3-year become ‘buddies’ ‘Healthy Friends’ theme project, working primarily with children Materials/resources/games aged 7/8 and 10/11 through a produced to support the ‘buddying’ project, and extending activities, will be developed to reach younger children and their in phases and piloted at each families from 2 upwards. stage with the children to ensure that the children ‘grow’ The project will aim to raise alongside the materials prior awareness of the value of physical to these being made available activity/healthy eating and to a wider audience. The fi nal introduce ideas for ‘buddying’ resource/pack or guide will in a traditionally non-educational be child/parent/playworker environment. Often work in this area friendly Young People’s Partnerships and is focused on health programmes have links with the Health, Social delivered through schools, In addition to the ‘buddying’ Care and Well-being Partnership however, this project will provide element with older children, some and with all relevant aspects of ‘learning through play’. Activity will resources will be trialled with the Education Department, Local predominately focus on ‘buddying’ younger/pre-school children. This Health Board and N.H.S Trust. with junior aged children attending will ensure that the messages and out of school childcare clubs associated resources reach a wider An advisory group made community at an earlier stage and up of a number of relevant that children, families and childcare Carmarthenshire based workers become familiar with the organisations will meet regularly content. The impact of the project to support the progress of the will be evaluated with the children, project. parents and childcare workers. For more information about The Project Partners, Clybiau the project please contact the Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, Mudiad project manager, Karen Pereira: Ysgolion Meithrin and Wales 07977200318 / 01792 483031 Pre-school Playgroups Association have a history of working successfully together. They have representation within Local Authorities on the Children and

8 Y Bont full of energy and cannot wait to help all the out of school clubs in Carmarthenshire get involved in the Play Learn & Grow Healthy project. The only problem we have at the moment is that we do not have any names and so cannot really Hi there! introduce ourselves properly to the children. Hi there. WeWe are the characters from the Play Learn & Grow Healthy project logo and you will be seeing quite a lot of us for the next 3 years develops consultation software as this project develops. for use with children and who are Can you help? working with the project consulting By entering this fun COMPETITION, Although we are only going to be with the children about health and you could win a PRIZE for your working in Carmarthenshire to wellbeing. We will be asking the out of school club. All you need to start with, we are hoping to make children the questions on- screen do is think of names for us both, it big – by appearing in some of on lap top computers. the resources developed by the remembering that we are going to project for children to use. These We will also be appearing in Y be working on a project to promote resources, which will promote a Bont for the next 3 years telling healthy lifestyles. healthy lifestyle, could eventually you all about the Play Learn & become available to clubs across Grow Healthy project and how it To enter simply send your the whole of Wales. is progressing, as well as in other suggested names to our national publicity material for the project, offi ce in Cardiff, marking your One of the things we are going to so please look out for us. envelope ‘Newsletter Competition’ be doing for the Play Learn & Grow by April 30th. Healthy project is to be working with As you can see we are very excited ‘Viewpoint Limited’ a company that to be part of this project. We are

Board Member Launch event for Education and On the 13th January this year the Children’s Services Play Learn & Grow Healthy project carried out the offi cial was launched at the Halliwell launch. He said he Centre in Carmarthen. was delighted that Clybiau Plant Cymru The event was attended by Kids’ Clubs had over 30 people, mostly from secured this funding Carmarthenshire and included for Carmarthenshire. project partners Mudiad Ysgolion He felt that this was an Meithrin and Wales Pre-school excellent project that Playgroups Association. Other would help ensure From left: Stephen Lambert, Chair of Trustees, Clybiau Plant organisations in attendance Cymru Kids’ Clubs, Karen Pereira, Councillor Ieuan Jones, Wendy that children would be Hawkins, and Mike Theodoulou. were: Carmarthenshire County introduced to healthy Council, Hywel Dda NHS Trust, Carmarthenshire Youth and food options and be encouraged and themes. The Big Lottery Children’s Association, Menter to become more active. hopes to gather evidence from across Wales on how to change Cwm Gwendraeth, Menter Other speakers included Wendy children’s attitudes, awareness Bro Dinefwr, Ysgolion Iach, Hawkins, Director of Clybiau and behaviour towards a healthier Carmarthenshire Children’s Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, Karen lifestyle from the 14 projects Partnership, Swansea University Pereira, Project Manager, Clybiau funded in total from this initiative. and the Play Development Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, and Offi cer for Pembrokeshire and Mike Theodoulou from the Big Mike Theodoulou then presented Carmarthenshire. Lottery who spoke about the Way Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs Councillor Ieuan Jones, Executive of Life Programme, it’s priorities with a cheque for £425,797.

Y Bont 9 Funding News

Fundraising Ideas 101 42. Puppet show 1. Singing 2. Sing-a-long 43. Second-hand book sale 3. Reading 44. Badge-making 4. Swimming 45. Stalls [at other people’s events] 5. Spelling, times tables, arithmetic problems 46. Local history tours 6. Sponsored walking, biking, toddling 47. Sell t-shirts printed with club logo 7. Dance-a-thon 48. Balloon race 8. Bouncing 49. Fun runs 9. Climbing, abseiling, parachuting 50. Barbeque 10. Sponsoring bricks or tiles or suchlike if fundraising is for a 51. Hairdressing building. Or you could substitute anything else you might need 52. Diaries/calendars such as equipment or resources. Create a list with costs and 53. Auction a quilt, mosaic or painting made by the children in the let people donate toward item/s on the list. club [It’s worth organising an activity like this to occur regularly 11. Treasure hunt each week and advertise it. It will encourage attendance on 12. Match box fi lling that night for participants.] 13. Sports games, skills, marathons 54. Auction created by the children 14. Sunfl ower growing 55. Produce a club newsletter with children’s stories, poems, 15. Hair braiding comments, jokes, pictures which could be sold to parents at 16. Silence!! [even just over the snack period] the end of each term 17. Collecting coins. Encourage collection with these facts: 56. Guess the weight, name or length of an object. Guess · A mile of 10p coins would be worth £5,662. the number of something such as sweets in a jar. Purchase · A mile of 50p coins would be worth £27,154. something, which will be the prize for the person who guesses · A mile of £1 coins would be worth £71,280. correctly. Charge for each guess, and create one list of all 18. Collecting coins. Give the children Mini Eggs tubes [or guesses to ensure there isn’t duplication similar] to be fi lled with coins and brought back to the club. 57. Christmas concert, carol singing, or play. Sell tickets or Some parents may put the odd fi ve pence or twenty pence in programmes. Also, produce a video of the event and sell as well as pennies. copies to parents. 19. Car wash – and increase your profi ts by selling refreshments, 58. Book fair cakes, cans of soda 59. Collect favourite recipes from parents, grandparents, 20. Jumble sale - and sell refreshments and/or run a raffl e. and others, have the children create some artwork. Then, 21. Cheese and wine. This, or similar activity, could be depending on your budget, put together a book, recipe ‘cards’, combined with an AGM. But remember that licensing laws or a CD/DVD and sell!!. apply to the sale of alcohol. 60. Purchase a gift certifi cate for (or ask for the restaurant to 22. Wine, beer, food tasting. donate) a dinner for 2 at a local restaurant and add to the 23. Coffee morning prize £20 cash to cover the cost of a babysitter, too! Sell raffl e 24. Bring and buy tickets. 25. Cake stall – donations from parents, grandparents, or made 61. Give and Take – Put up a board on which families can post by the children in the club and sold to parents services they are willing to give or services they want to take. 26. Antiques roadshow/auction. Always remember to try to Each service has a pledged donation that will go to the club. maximise profi ts by including refreshments, raffl es, stalls. When someone selects a service, they remove the pledge card, 27. Car boot/attic sales and present it to the author. Example: GIVE - babysitting for £5 28. Twmpath/Ceilidh, dinner dance an hour, a home cooked meal delivered to your home for £20. 29. Karaoke, disco TAKE - furniture moving for £75, a basket of ironing for £15. 30. Quiz night 62. Bonus ball – sell squares for the weekly lottery bonus ball. 31. Arts and crafts demonstrations, fl ower arranging; craft fair Sell 49 squares = £49. The winner gets 50% of the proceeds, 32. Art exhibition of the children’schildren’s work. Charge for entry.entry. club gets the other 50%. This works even if all the squares are 33. Bridge tournament not sold, if bonus ball is not bought, then all monies roll over to 34. Easter egg hunts, Halloween parties 35. Casino night 36. TreasureTreasure hunt on foot, cycle, car 37. Raffl e 38. Tombola 39. Tournaments 40. Garden party 41. Duck race

10 Y Bont the following week. 63. Sweepstake 64. Bag packing at your local supermarket 65. Fancy dress 66. Sponsored pyjama / fi lm night party – wear your pyjamas, bring a pillow and enjoy the fi lm! 67. Use your Active Club pack for lots of ideas for sponsored activities. (Speak to your Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs development offi cer about how to obtain a pack if you don’t have one.) 68. Food tasting session charging money for each different food sampled. Could even allocate different amounts for different types of food – most money for different fruit and veg etc. 69. Use green bingo from page 18 of Nature Zone – x amount of money for each box checked. (Again, speak to your Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs development offi cer about how to obtain a pack if you don’t have one.) 70. Favours auction - adults bid for some one to ... 71. Horse racing evening – can be bought (or borrowed!) as a 87. Make and sell clay teddies. See page 61 in Marketing game with recorded video / DVD of races and ‘betting’ slips. Zone. 72. Birthday parties during club time. Parent/s / carer/s are 88. Make and sell sculpture. See page 63 in Marketing Zone. charged for food and entertainment and pay for any extra 89. Make and sell mobiles. See page 64 in Marketing Zone. children attending on that night. 90. Make and sell stained glass tiles. See page 66 in Marketing 73. Face painting. Be traditional OR try Tattootastic. See page Zone. 102 of our Culture Zone for details. (Speak to your Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs development offi cer about how to obtain a 91. Pool party – and extend profi t by having some raffl e prizes, pack if you don’t have one.) Culture Zone has lots of activity games, refreshments. ideas and recipes from around the world! 92. Concert in the park. 74. Make up / jewellery evenings with raffl e and donation from 93. Wine, cheese, and chocolate fest. Body Shop or whoever 94. Girls night out! 75. Auction of promises for someone to cut the grass, weed 95. Boys night out!! the garden, cook for a dinner party, decorate a birthday cake, babysit – parents to offer their skills for auction. 96. Gift wrapping service. 76. Cinema night with popcorn and hot dogs. 97. Make and sell club key rings. See page 67 in Marketing 77. Local fi rm to sponsor activity/newsletter/garden patch/club Zone. uniforms. 98. Recycled fashion show – collect and ask parents to donate 78. Themed dressing – up days. Choose a theme, e.g., Sports old clothes, hats, jewellery, packaging, bottle caps etc. Use Day, Messy Day, Bad Hair Day, Yellow Day, Australia Day. Ask paints, fancy threads, safety pins, string, marker pens, elastic to the children to bring dressing up clothes or props. Children are create ‘trash’ fashion. See page 36 in Play Zone for more details. charged a fee to come to club dressed up and on this occasion (Speak to your Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs development could bring a friend to join in the fun which might offi cer about how to obtain a pack if you don’t have one.) even create new members. Have a photo shoot 99. Sponsored pancake toss. and/or parade during the session, and sell 100. TeaTea towels – various companies sell this service photos to parents. – children draw themselves on tea towels which are 79. Picnic then printed and you can sell them to parents, 80. Sponsored events: matchbox fi ll, pram relatives, etc. push, teddy bears picnic 101. Sell wrapping paper, cards. 81. Fete – join with others and have a fete. Share the proceeds from ice cream, catering vans and fairground rides. Run stalls for the club’sclub’s benefi t: treasure island, bat the rat, penalty shootout, plants, hook a duck, welly throwing, roll a penny,penny, coconut shy,shy, white elephant, lucky dip.

82. Pet show 83. Talent show Good Luck! 84. Pancake race 85. St David’sDavid’s Day celebration – have a Welsh supper night offering Cawl and Welsh Rarebit. Charge parents, relatives, friends to attend. See pages 56-67 of our Culture Zone for details. Our Zone Packs have lots of ideas that can be used for 86. Sell customised holiday baubles created by the children. fundraising. Come to one of our NETWORK EVENTS and get See page 60 in Marketing Zone. a FREE copy for your club. The pack has lots of ideas for promoting your club and consulting with children as well as fundraising. (Speak to your Clybiau Plant Be sure to check any requirements for insurance, licensing and Cymru Kids’ Clubs development offi cer about how to obtain a other laws, and don’t forget to consider health and safety when pack if you don’t have one.) planning your fundraising activities.

Y Bont 11 Get Crafty!

Easter Egg Heads Cool Colours What you need hard boiled eggs What you need: scraps of material: cloth, ribbon, Colour paint strips from DIY shops wool or net What you do: poster paints 1. Search outside for natural items that match the colours on your an egg box chosen paint strip. coloured card 2. Make a collage from the items gathered. Health & Safety Warning: Food Allergies. What you do 1. Cut out an egg box segment to create the body for the Egg Head. 2. Cut a hole in the top of the egg box segment for your egg to sit in. 3. Paint a face onto the egg shell. 4. Cover the egg box segment (body) with pieces of material to clothe your egg head. 5. Make hair using wool and glue it on to the top of your egg. Add ribbon or make a hat! Alternatively, you could paint then decorate with beads and jewels to make your very own Faberge egg. Blow Away Art What you need: Twigs Leaves Seeds Flowers Any other natural item already detached from trees and plants What you do: 1. Find a space away from the path, and create a picture or pattern on the ground using the things you’ve found. 2. Show your friends what you have made and look at their creations. 3. Enjoy your art before it blows away in the wind!

Use only fl owers, leaves and seeds that have fallen from trees, or pick a few from your own garden. Do not take plants from private land, parks or nature reserves. 12 Y Bont !