Sally Hancox

As part of my day camps for children aged 4-11 on the theme of storytelling, we looked  at the quilts of Harriet Powers, like above.

Harriet Powers was born a slave and made some beautiful quilts with bible stories, local stories and personal stories included. For example, the bottom centre panel is about a famous local pig called Bess who ran away from home many miles, echoing slave escapes. The centre left panel shows Jonah and the Whale.

For the project the class used sticky back felt (easy to use because you can draw the shape first in pencil) to show a story they could back up orally.

Below is a self portrait-as-giant, with a normal sized person in orange, for scale)

The one below by Reuben shows two penguins in love in a snow storm.

I can’t remember the details of this one but the orange shape is an underwater cave.

This summer holiday I am teaching four ‘day camps’ jam packed with arts and crafts. The general theme is story telling and the 1st day included this activity.

First we read “Today is Monday” by Eric Carle. (see pic above)

Then we used poster paint, tissue paper and some scraping tools to make abstract patterns (below)

Then we drew animals on the back of our paper and cut them out. Sticking them on coloured or white paper.

I went to the Lambeth Country Show 2014 and saw this great rag weaving on an old clothes horse.

Karina was also running some smaller rag weaving workshops.