As part of landliesfallow (see www.landliesfallow.org.uk), I've been documenting the plants that are growing in disused green spaces around the Meadows. It's fairly slow work as I keep getting distracted by other projects but am hoping to create a large archive of drawings.

Brookfield stick puppets

Year Fives at Brookfield Primary worked incredibly hard to make these stick puppets. Their topic this term was the Titanic so each child developed a character who may have sailed on the Titanic. We had a collection of Captains and Stewards as well as some very glamorous first class passengers and a couple of thieves and stowaways. The group used stuff tights to create their puppet shape and learnt different stitches to sew noses and ears. They were also excellent at designing and making outfits for their puppets, some used patterns which I had created whilst others came up with their own creations.
We were all very proud of what they had created.