Forthcoming training events….
come and join Creeping Toad on exciting days developing new ideas, refreshing old skills and finding time for a bit of inspiration to infuse your own activity
November
Thursday 18th Wild Words – day of storymaking and instant poems, playing with words and using language to celebrate the world around us!
Friday 19th Creative Biodiversity: a workshop to explore the principles of biodiversity: what do we mean, what ideas do we hope to share with people, how can we do this in imaginative, engaging ways
Organised by Wildwise and held at Sharpham in Totnes, Devon
Contact WildWise: www.wildwise, org, uk
Wild Words and Leafy Pages
Monday January 31st, 2011
This workshop will include activities that can be used to help groups of all ages use language to explore, enjoy and celebrate their environment. We will play with words to create instant stories, sudden poems, beautiful moments and laughing incidents. Then we will explore exciting ways of recording written words in bog books, wild scrolls, mapsticks, water pictures and handmade paper. This day is aimed at professionals working with primary schools in literacy, art and environmental work.
Venue: Bishops Wood Environment Centre
Contact: www.bishopswoodcentre.org.uk
Fabulous Worlds – working with art, recycled materials and the natural world
Tuesday 1st February 2011
BW13 February 1st
A creative day for environmental educators, arts workers, teachers and other educators taking an alternative approach to ‘recycled’ art with the inspiring Creeping Toad. Gordon will look at how many animals, plants and environments we can create – ranging from miniature model worlds in plastic bottles to plastic bottle animals, to projections and light and giant puppet creatures.
Venue: Bishops Wood Environment Centre
Contact: www.bishopswoodcentre.org.uk
FEBRUARY: more activities to come: half day “Learning Outside the Classroom” sessions in the Peak District
APRIL: an International Year of the Forest day at the Sustainability Centre in Hampshire,