Felt Story at Blair Castle

A cold day in late September, and this time we were at Blair Castle working with children from Blair Atholl primary school. The children huddled under the shelter in the adventure playground and listened to the story of The Hunchback and the Swan. This is an old traveller's tale about friendship, love and resurrection. The children were spellbound and all came up with beautiful images to work into the felt panel that we created during the day. Thanks to Blair Castle for providing a great environment for making and listening. This panel will be on display in the storytelling yurt during the Enchanted Forest in Pitlochry later this month.

Felt Story at the Crannog

Felt Story had a great day with children from Kenmore Primary School at Oakbank Crannog by Loch Tay on Thursday 4th September. Claire Hewitt and I were working with them to use the story of Brownie the Cow to inspire them to make a large piece of felt and in turn using the feltmaking to inspire the retelling of the story. Even though stories are made from words and are told with the mouth, whereas felt is made from wool using hands, children relate easily to both and come up with some wonderful pictures from the story. They also soak up the story as Claire tells it and spending time using their hands to explore characters from the story helps them really fix it in their brains.

That's what our logo is about, it shows the journey of the story as it travels from heart to hand and back again.

Felt Story is based in Highland Perthshire and we have run workshops for children at Birnam Institute, Kinloch Rannoch and Glenlyon Primary Schools and for youngsters from Brooklyn in the Douglas Pavilion in the Plant Collector’s Garden, Pitlochry.

The day was supported by Pitlochry in Bloom, who raised money from the Scottish Book Trust and the Co-op Community Fund.