Drawing with children

Last week I visited three primary schools. I started at Accrington on Tuesday. Green Haworth Primary school was a lovely little school on a hill with a beautiful view. The children were funny and the teachers were friendly. The school had just opened a little library and we painted a picture which is now hanging just across the hall.

The children worked very hard on it. It looks great!

 

Here are some details.   I like all the pictures, but this fish and this flying cheetah with a  parrot are probably one of my favourites.

The next school was in Kent and going there was quite a challenge. I live in Worcester and I went by train through Oxford. It was all flooded! We went to Oxford twice there and back. It took me eight hours to get to Rainham.

From Rainham I went to Hemel Hempstead. In Fairview Community Primary School I talked to years 1 & 2 and we did a picture based on “Butterfly, Butterfly”.

I started with a picture of Lucy, painted the background for the picture….and the children finished it off.

We had a great time and I received lots of cards and pictures which I took home with me. Here are some of them.

 This is Lucy.

 This is me with an apron with Suzy Goose on it (I do have an apron like this).

I got this letter

 and these amazing pictures.

I love this card from the little girl who signed it Savanah.

It was a busy but fun week. I met hundreds of children of which a huge number of them want to be illustrators and writers. Some of them told me that “they REALLY love me” and the best question from a little boy I got during my talk was: “Would you like to come with me and play outside?”