Tag Archives: Early Years

The importance of ‘Invitations to Play’

Today I read with interest of Toddlers’ Choice at the Whitworth: a project in which toddlers were invited to vote for their favourite artwork from a selection. They were also presented with sensory play themed around the favourite artworks they’d voted for,… Read more

Creative Baby! session 2: mirrors, kitchens and crayons!

Following the positive feedback received at the first session, Jess, Lillian and I approached the second session of Creative Baby! with great excitement. This session would focus on ‘Domesticity: an exhibition of interiors by Naomi Alexander’. I had already developed various ways of engaging… Read more

Looking, playing and creating: early exhibition experiences

The exhibition ‘Domesticity‘ features many of the interior scenes Naomi Alexander has painted of homes around the world over the past 30 years, including paintings created as part of a recent residency in Gateshead. Here are six simple ways we… Read more

Creative Baby! begins

Having taken the first steps of developing ‘Creative Baby!’ (as described in my previous blog post) it was now time to start really thinking about the shape this exciting project would take. My aim was to help parents and babies… Read more

Creative Baby!: The beginnings of an idea…

For my first blog post, I thought I’d give you some insight into how ‘Creative Baby!’ came about. This is a new monthly group I’ve developed for babies 0-12 months, which combines an exhibition tour, crafting activity, parachute games and… Read more