Instructions:

1. Cut a length of bordette to fit around head.  Staple ends together to create hat.
2. Wind a pipecleaner around a pencil to create a spiral.
3. Cut a shamrock shape from funky foam and poke a small hole in the base with a pencil.  Thread one end of pipecleaner through this hole.
4. To attach this to the hat, push the other end of pipecleaner into the corrugated slots in the bordette

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As a Community Artist and teacher, Anna has developed and maintained successful working relationships over the past 15 years with several leading organisations in the statutory, community and voluntary sectors. This helped her identify training opportunities and led to the creation of new innovative courses aimed at improving practice and delivery of art & craft in community settings.

Projects, classes and training workshops have been manifold over the years and include mosaic, felt making, glass painting, jewellery making, community art & crafts training, and recycling projects such as paper making and scrap art. These have been delivered through schools, FE colleges, hospitals, community centres, Play Resource, festivals, day centres, youth clubs and arts centres. Anna has worked with all ages from primary to pensioners in a diverse range of social settings including marginalised groups such as Travellers, teenagers excluded from school and people with a disability. The range of classes and projects undertaken locally and internationally and the diversity of participants are testament to her commitment, ability and passion for community arts work.

Angela Ginn has been a practicing artist for 20 years and has been facilitating creative art workshops for 17 years. She has worked in community groups, galleries, schools and hospitals, involving many different people including the elderly, women’s groups, inter generational, multi-cultural and youth groups. She was resident artist for Dungannon Community Arts Studio for three years facilitating their Arts and Disability programme. Her approach is always child/ participant centred.

Angela offers workshops for small process based arts and crafts projects and large public artworks to suit the needs of each group. It is always important for her to liaise thoroughly with each group and that each project is especially tailored to suit the needs,  ideas  and vision of the group.

Some recent projects have included :

A series of murals for Monkstown Community Centre which represent the wide range of the community who use the centre.

A large cross community mosaic project involving two Glengormley schools – Carnmoney and St Mary’s On The Hill  PS.

A WELCOME mosaic for St Bernards PS in Glengormley

A series of anti drugs murals with Newtownabbey Community High School, Rathcoole.

She has been resident artist for the last three years in eight schools in Antrim, facilitating their extended schools art programme and co-ordinating and facilitating art sessions and various exhibitions for the schools. Angela has worked with numerous community and schools groups through the Play Resource over the last fifteen years.

In 2011 she was commissioned to create four ACNI Re Imaging artworks in various locations across Northern Ireland.

Instructions:

1. Cut some small and large circles from white paper and join together on reverse, using tape, to make a cloud shape.
2. Lay some glitter strips down side by side to create a rainbow.  Tape across one end of rainbow to join the strips together
3. Tape this to the back of the cloud to finish.

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I am a positive enthusiastic person and really enjoy working with people in a visual way. Creativity and imagination has an exciting contagious energy: I love the way ideas seem to take on a life of their own and just keep growing….

I facilitate collaborative workshops and projects where everyone has the freedom to express themselves within a supportive friendly environment, while being given the technical skills they need to bring their ideas into reality.

My priority is that participants are engaged, inspired and excited by what they are doing.

I work with all age groups and abilities, but particularly enjoy working with teenage young people. I use a wide range of media, and have a lot of experience with issue based topics such as drugs, bullying, and anti-social behaviour. I also run classroom based teacher training projects.

“The classes and projects that I facilitate are prepared to meet the specific requirements of the participants. I will pre-plan activities to suit all levels of ability and guide everyone though each stage at their own individual pace. My main concerns are that there is a relaxed comfortable atmosphere that allows everyone a chance to learn, explore, reflect and achieve their highest creative potential.

“I have experience in working with early years, primary, secondary, older people, special needs, ethnic groups.”

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Please note Play Resource will be closed on Monday 19th March and will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday 20th March 2012. Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone!

Instructions:

1. Take 4 cellotape inners and squash them flat.
2. Bend 3 into a heart shape, and 1 into a stalk shape.
3. Join all the pieces together using masking tape, to make a shamrock.
4. Paint using green poster paint and leave to dry.

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Instructions:

1. Paint a beard around the outer edge of plate.
2. Cut a hat shape form some card and glue onto paper plate using PVA glue.  Add a gold buckle to hat using gold foil and PVA glue.
3. Add eyes and mouth using paint or markers.

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You will need:

•  Buttons
•  Chalk Board
•  PVA Glue
•  Paint
•  Ribbon
•  Chalk / Chalk Marker

Instructions:

1. Paint wooden frame of chalk board in chosen colour and leave to dry.

2. Use PVA glue to add some buttons in flower formations around the
frame of the board and leave this to dry.

3. Add a length of ribbon to hang and write your chosen message in chalk,
or chalk markers.

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Scrapstore.

You will need:

•  Lollypop Sticks
•  PVA Glue
•  Card / Paper
•  Buttons
•  Wool – Scrap
•  Plastic Tub – Scrap
•  White Sticks – Scrap

Instructions:

1. Lay a square plastic tub on its side and cover one side with PVA glue.
Lay your lollysticks on top, lining them all up with one edge of the tub.

2. Leave this side to dry. Repeat with the 3 other sides, the lollysticks will
overlap on each corner, or you can cut them down with scissors. While
you are waiting for the glue to dry, you can make the flowers.

3. Cut 3 large card flowers from one colour of card or paper, then 3 small
flowers from a contrasting colour of paper, glue together and add a button
to the middle. Glue on a white stick to create a stalk.

4. Fill the tub with brown wool, and then pop the paper flowers in!

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Scrapstore.

Instructions:

1. Cut a circle of fabric larger than the size of the paper plate.  Wrap this over the plate and secure the edges on the back with masking tape.
2. Piece a hole in the centre and insert clock part through it.
3. Glue some buttons around the face of the clock to mark the hours.
4. Add a message around the edge using fabric pens.

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