Tag Archives: Early Years

Places to go & things to do: embarking on our Family Adventures!

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Posted by administrator on March 16, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

At the second Exhibition Explorers session we were delighted to find so many of the group had been on a Family Adventure to a museum or gallery, and returned with their completed scrapbook page to share their discoveries. Exhibition Explorers is an… Read more

Exhibition Explorers at the Shipley – what our youngest visitors can teach us.

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Posted by administrator on February 24, 2016     Permalink     Comments (2)

Last week our exciting new project Exhibition Explorers began. Sixteen children aged 1 and 2 and their grown-ups joined us to embark on an exciting six month journey of discovery, finding new ways of enjoying galleries and museums together. This project is focused on… Read more

Growing our family offer

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Posted by administrator on February 18, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

I’m really excited to have developed two new offers for Early Years, both of which are free and fairly flexible for people to drop into: Magic Carpet is a special artist-made bag that folds out into a creative playmat. It comes complete with… Read more

Exhibition Explorers – new adventures ahead!

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Posted by administrator on February 7, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

As we approached the end of the pilot of Creative Baby! it became apparent to me that the offer for Early Years really needed to grow along with the rapidly expanding Early Years audience we’d attracted. The response to Creative Baby!… Read more

Our favourite magical moments: revisiting the ‘Creative Baby!’ exhibition tours.

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Posted by administrator on January 14, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

There have been so many wonderful surprises over the course of ‘Creative Baby!’ Here we look back on some of our favourite discoveries, revisiting those moments when the babies responded in fascinating ways the artwork and creative play: The whole-body response: Whilst adults… Read more