Friday, August 02, 2013
Beast Wings - Wye
Helped 50 plus children & families make beast wings as part of the Conservation Volunteers Wild Wye Beast Day at Wye Nature Reserve
Thursday, August 01, 2013
Willow Sculptures made by Maggie & 200 children!
Large Willow sculpture made in two days with 200 young enthusiastic ladies. Loosely inspired by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth & Andy Goldsworthy:
Food Sculpture - Wye Food Festival
Food Sculpture fun with local families as part of the Wye Food Festival June 2013, generously funded by the Wye Childrens' Playing Field Charity and Wye Parish Council. A BIG thank you to The New Flying Horse for lending us such a beautiful venue!
Maggie's 2012
Its been another interesting year! Polystyrene cows, willow storytelling huts,murals, paper gardens, foraging courses to name but a few......roll on 2013!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Beanstalk Project -Gravesend
Two weeks, about 180 primary school children, 4 artists, 1 volunteer, over 250 metres of 'old' olympic flags, a lot of sewing, heaps of cotton, 6ft of polystyrene and a few lamposts! Go meet Daisy at Gravesham Borough Council offices / Woodville Halls theatre, now till 11th January (ish)
Friday, June 22, 2012
Willow Storytelling hut - Maidstone
Ooooo its exciting!......
Building a Willow storytelling space in a woodland in Maidstone with the help of the 'Craft and Chat' group and the local school with specially selected skilled children! Here's the visual story so far.......
Monday, June 18, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Wild Wye Family Foraging Course - 17th June 2012
Discover food for free!
On a short beginners foraging walk in the beautiful countryside of Wye, Kent
Taste handmade locally produced wild food goodies afterwards.
Find out more about the Wye Food festival (16th - 24th June) at www.wyefood.com/wyefoodfestival.html
Discover food for free!
On a short beginners foraging walk in the beautiful countryside of Wye, Kent
Taste handmade locally produced wild food goodies afterwards.
For further details and register click on this: LINK
Find out more about the Wye Food festival (16th - 24th June) at www.wyefood.com/wyefoodfestival.html
Sunday, April 29, 2012
The Paper Garden - Animate Arts
Helped make an awesome, life size paper and card garden with Animate Arts Company Ltd, 12 Kent schools, 2 other artists and some amazing volunteers!
Which can be seen at Stour Valley Arts Exhibition 5th May - 9th June:
Stour Valley Arts : Elwick Road, Ashford, KENT
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Salue: Garden of England has been inspired by London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Salue (meaning welcome) is a garden complete with flower and vegetable beds, a pond, greenhouse and lawn made entirely from paper and card by 260 children from 12 schools across Kent.
Which can be seen at Stour Valley Arts Exhibition 5th May - 9th June:

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Salue: Garden of England has been inspired by London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Salue (meaning welcome) is a garden complete with flower and vegetable beds, a pond, greenhouse and lawn made entirely from paper and card by 260 children from 12 schools across Kent.
The Sitting Room
I wove a lot of cushions out of newspapers for our paper and card Sitting Room. It was toured around Kent and received great feedback!
Here is the final result:
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Wye Lanterns 2011
Great to meet and help people make some lovely lantern creations for Wye lantern procession 2011, part of the Wye Bonfire night celebrations. Lovely to meet up with some old faces and what a night! Yes it was cold, it was windy, it drizzled but the lanterns looked spectacular! (and most survived the weather conditions). They looked soooo magical as we wound our way up to the crown. Take a look at the workshops and some final creations:
If you have any photos you'd like to share of the event, workshops or your lantern then do e-mail me.
If you have any photos you'd like to share of the event, workshops or your lantern then do e-mail me.
Labels:
Family Workshops,
Lanterns,
Maggie Johns,
Willow Lanterns,
Wye,
Wye Crown
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Wild Wye Family Foraging Course - 26th June 2011
Sign up now for another Maggie adventure!
Wild Wye Foraging Course Application Form
45min walk around Wye, followed by a taster session, competitions & recipe ideas
Hurry! Whilst there are still places left.
45min walk around Wye, followed by a taster session, competitions & recipe ideas
Hurry! Whilst there are still places left.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Wye Lantern Making Workshops
Want to take part in the first ever Wye Lantern Making workshop? Then fill out this online form:
Lantern making workshop form:
You will then be invited to parade your awesome creation in this magical walk up to the crown on the 6th November - be there or be VERY square!
Lantern making workshop form:
You will then be invited to parade your awesome creation in this magical walk up to the crown on the 6th November - be there or be VERY square!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Aylesham Lanterns 2010
Made willow lanterns with this lovely group of families. Some great ideas & designs & as you can see they look pretty awesome when lit!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Monster Bass Festival - Ramsgate
Made this Giant fish with the help of other artists. There were fireworks, storytelling, music and thousands of people on the beach. An AWESOME event! And it's going to be even bigger in 2011!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Truffles
I helped families from Beaver Green Primary school to make truffles. We were in chocolate heaven for 5 week sessions together. Really lovely group and some yummy evidence consumed!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Windchimes - Animate
Made these wonderful sounding windchimes with a lovely group of young people & some very enthusiastic helpers/teachers in Maidstone.
Labels:
Animate,
April 2010,
Craft,
Gatland House,
Maggie Johns,
Maidstone,
Windchimes,
Workshop
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