After the live Glow TV event Dr Neil Paterson gave us a tour of the native Scottish plant area at the gardens. Photographs from this tour are in the pattern wiki (Glow username and password required). We also started counted petals for Fibonacci numbers. It worked! Have you tried?
If you have please leave a comment or write a blog post to let us know what you discovered.
These notes, booklets and activities have been provided by Dr Neil Paterson and Sarah Derrick at DCA.
Last week was ‘Walk to School week’. We set a challenge to collect photographs and sketches of natural ‘treasure’ and already Burravoe and Mrs O’Connor’s primary schools have uploaded some ‘treasure’ to the group! Thank you so much!
I took a walk on Saturday morning and discovered lots of natural ‘treasure’ in the hedgerows beside my house.
Seed pods fallen from the tree, blades of grass dripping with dew, bright yellow dandelions, fluffy feathers, and a peafowl!
Oh and these…. (not sure what they are called)
I looked at them very closely and they were covered with creatures!
I am in the process of creating a pattern trail map!
These finds have also inspired me to get creative and begin inking up my creature for the Glow stampede!
How are you getting on?
Click on the links to watch and listen to Wendy Woolfson bring Johanna Basford’s designs to life through stroytelling.
Storytelling within ‘Crazy Botanic’
Storytelling in the Supersized Forest
Please visit the Wondertale wiki to be astounded by the creativity and imagination of young writers across Scotland (Glow username and password required)
Wendy, Johanna – thank you sincerely – what an inspiration for all of us, Anna
On Tuesday Johanna Basford joined us live on Glow TV from the DCA.
Sadly we faced serious technical issues and lost our wifi connection. Another camera was recording the session so we are editing those clips and aiming to share those as soon as possible.
During the interview Glow TV viewers asked lots of questions and we are working on a transcript of the answers. Watch this space 🙂
Johanna, thank you so much for your time on Tuesday! We can’t wait to share the Blue Peter moment you created for viewers after the live event. We will give you a clue – what does Glow begin with?…
In the meantime if you have access to YouTube – The DCA interviewed Johanna and the clip can be viewed here!
Wendy Woolfson, a storyteller from Glasgow used Johanna Basford’s exhibtion to tell stories. She looked carefully at 3 of Johanna’s wallpaper designs. ‘Botanic Crazy’, ‘Peking’ and ‘Hamlet’. You can view these on Johanna’s website.
The three designs were combined to create an incredible ‘Wondertale’.
Learners across Scotland then explored the exhibtion and began to create a collaborative story with Wendy. Johanna’s boat inspired a flood of ideas and an octopus caused chaos reeking havoc below the boat! Many of the suggestions involved superhero animals, bees, penguins and mermaids. Wendy used ‘Wonderbeasts’ to help generate ideas. You can explore ‘Wonderbeasts’ here. Johanna has also created a PDF of Wonderbeasts which can be downloaded from her site and this could help to inspire your Wondertale.
Wendy took us on an incredible storytelling adventure yesterday. To listen to her stories, undertake the warm up activity and begin to breakdown how she created her stories you can watch the Glow TV event again by clicking here. (Glow username and password required)
Wendy, thank you so much!
Before and after the live event we recorded Wendy telling more stories in the gallery and we will share these and behind the scene photographs from the event later this week.
Creativity challenge 1 – Create a Wondertale!
Visit Johanna Basford’s Gallery of work.
Look carefully at a design that ‘catches your eye’. Why does the design appeal to you? Look carefully at the detail.
Capture – Describe the design in words. Describe the design as a whole and then describe sections and details within those.
Create a ‘Wondertale’ by imagining you have shrunk and are small enough to walk around the design. Describe what you might see, hear, feel, smell and even dare to taste. Your ‘Wondertale’ might be a poem, story, rap or song.
SHARE – You will earn the ‘Wondertales’ badge if you upload your Wondertale and any wordbanks you have created to the Look, Capture, Create Wiki. Please leave comments and feedback for each other on the wiki.
Airth School will also be joining us – Welcome Airth!
We look forward to looking at, creating and capturing Scottish biodiversity in your area of Scotland!
As many schools as possible can join the project but ONLY the first 10 will receive 20 pens and a copy of Johanna Basford’s book.
I wonder who will be school 10!
Some INKY MISSIONS to follow soon!
I’m really pleased to see that we now have EIGHT schools signed up to Look, Capture Create!
How fantastic!
Welcome everyone – your pens, book and a special invitation will be posted to you next Wednesday from Glasgow!
I wonder how long it will take to reach you?
Thank you,
Anna
Please remember that you can ask questions, leave comments and I will get back to you 🙂
I am delighted to see that we have 4 schools who have signed up for 2 Glow Tv events and they will be sent pens, a copy of Johanna’s book and a special invitation at the beginning of next week.
We are looking forward to undertaking this inky adventure with
We still have six sets of pens and copies of Johanna’s book to give away – still time to sign up!
Fantastic!
And thank you,
Anna
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