UNIT X - EDUCATOR: Z ARTS WORKSHOP

3pm meet @ Z Arts. 1 hour set up!

Feelings during the set up was relaxed, we had everything we needed.

Feelings about the workshop:

-          Hard.

-          Impressed

-          Enthusiastic

Key points:

-          Interactive

-          Creativeness

-          Knowledge

TABLE SET UP.

1st group

With the first group it was a little harder to get across what we were doing today. We showed the children the visual aids presented on the tables and on the wall to help guide them. What I never took into consideration was language, I found it hard to explain and to try and make our workshop even more simple, even presenting the aids it was hard for the younger ones to understand, but luckily some had older siblings there to help them and to explain what we was wanting to them to create.

Time wasn't on our side for the 1^st group as we didn't anticipate how hard it was going to be to explain what we was doing, so they did take a little bit of time which was no problem as some were very lovely detailed drawings.

2^nd group

With the second group I found that they were more comfortable, the 2^nd group were older than the 1^st group we had which I think that’s why they were more comfortable with what they were doing, the 2^nd group were more interactive very hands in! using all the tools we had, producing 2 pieces of work each! The enthusiasm from this group was brilliant, they loved it (very paint and ink happy) really detailed marks! Again time just flew by!

3^rd group

As we knew time was just going far to quick and this being the last group we thought to help them out we would create some quick marks as well and get stuck in ourselves!(which I loved doing! And so did the girls)

The 3^rd group seemed to know more of an urban environment, they understood it so much better so they got stuck in, making dark clouds of soot just like what happened with the moths. The 3^rd group just cracked on. From the 3^rd group just getting on we started to stick all the kids work on the walls whilst we had abit of time and even some of the kids started to stick there work up themselves. It started to really come together, I thought it looked really effective!

URBAN ENVIRO.

The workshop finished and the kids went and washed there hands etc. And to finish it off Hannah got the kids to get there peppered moth and asked them where they wanted to stick there moth.. at this point all the kids went over to the natural environment.

NATURAL ENVIRO. 

Looking at the moths stuck on the tree they made looked really good! I think the whole group was proud of how the whole workshop went and how good the kids were and how stuck in they got with it all! Being my first ever workshop I was buzzing of how well group 2 did and you can tell we did well as the kids were so happy with what they did!

BUT, always a but. we did have a little miss hap.. as i have mentioned the kids got really into the painting and ink, which is not the problem of them having fun but the problem was health and safety and some of the kids loved the ink and as we didn't have paint brushes as such allot of the kids used there fingers as paint brushes.. fingers and ink are not the best combination in all honesty. So yeah.. we had to tell the kids to not use there fingers with ink!