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.
