Who knew Alice Franklin and Nicole Berry would be so at home in full body jumpsuits, playing around with eyeballs, exploding volcanoes and icky gloop??
Last Saturday (16 July), they treated a room full of young Puke Ariki visitors to an icky, mucky experience of a lifetime. Inspired by Stranger Than Fiction's taxidermied and preserved specimens, they spent weeks creating all sorts of goodies that could be put into jars. There were eyeballs, cauliflower for brains, amazing expanding balls and painted potatoes complete with pipe cleaner arms and legs. Guaranteed to freak out any mother!
After exhibition host Adrienne Cessford took the kids down into the show for a look around, they came back to the Education Centre and put their minds to the task of creating the freakiest looking jars they could possibly produce. Looks like fun!:
There was even a paper mache volcano with plastic farm animals, fences and flowing lava! It was made especially for the event by Discover It's own TeAo, who wanted to get in on the creative fun. And the kids certainly seemed to be impressed:
Some sort of crazy, gloopy madness was served up in a paddling pool and the kids didn't seem to need any encouragement to get their hands dirty:
The workshop not only provided all sorts of hands-on fun for its young participants, but it also showcased the skills of the talented staff we have at Puke Ariki. Nicole said it was fantastic to be able to put her early childhood teaching skills to good use, and the artistically inclined Alice said any excuse to paint potatoes was good by her!
Congratulations to the ladies for the tremendous effort put into their first Icky Things in Jars workshop. Don't forget there is still a chance to get your young one in on the fun ... their second workshop is on Saturday 30 July!
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