early years — NEWS — Scribble & Smudge

Well, the days seem to be slowly getting warmer! Scribble and Smudge will be doing art workshops for The William Morris Gallery in May, June and July. A free under 5’s session where the families learn a craft and a little about the work in the William Morris Gallery. This May we will have sneak peek at the Morris Mania exhibition, celebrating all that has Morris patterns. Early years learning sequencing and counting to design a pasta medallion. I’m looking forward to making magic with the humble pasta.

Morris Mania is on May15th at The William Morris Gallery. See events

Walthamstow Toy Library’s 50th Birthday May Fair.
Come along and have fun for all of the family! This is a wonderful celebration of a service that has created friendships for families for life! A stalwart of our community and the launch pad to my company. I started volunteering at Walthamstow Toy library in 2008, creating a year long Arts programme for members and families within our community. Scribble and Smudge would not have been born without The Toy library.

I am forever grateful to Carolyn Sharma, who helped me on the programme all the while looking after 3 small kids! It was a frenetic and fun time. Here are some photos and a video from the Arts programme created for Walthamstow Toy library.

Celebrating Chinese New Year 2009. https://scribbleandsmudge.blogspot.com/search?q=chinese+new+year

Young Person’s Caribbean Carnival 2010. https://scribbleandsmudge.blogspot.com/2010/

English folk dancing 2008. https://youtu.be/veimIKd8ZLM?feature=shared

Toy chimes, with the @Barbicancentre in 2021 for Walthamstow Garden Party 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7elGrH1nU

Chinese New year celebration for Walthamstow toy library in 2009, with a baby lion dance.

Young Person’s Caribbean Carnival with Church Hill nursery and Walthamstow toy library’s entry in 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veimIKd8ZLM

Walthamstow Toy Library is 50 this year! Join us for a fun celebration on Saturday 17th May. We'd love for past members, volunteers and Trustees to come along, share stories and photos for an exhibition that we will be running at the end of the year. Everyone welcome.

* Street Party
* Bouncy Castles
* Face Painter
* Music & Dancing
* Food & Drink
* Craft
* Games

Helen Crockford manager of Walthamstow Toy Library and Scribble and Smudge for the Toy chime project 2021.

Scribble and smudge were busy over the summer with producing workshops for Playschemes at Church Hill nursery and Low Hall nursery. We usually create something with them to extend further play. This year we made lollipops and vehicles. These would be good to replicate at home, just simple materials around the house , paper plates, boxes, kitchen roll, and you're off.
The lollipops fired imaginative flavours, they talked about who to share their lollies with and also to play shops. Colours were layered, asking them as they went along what would that taste like? we used spinning techniques to make the swirls. Look how scrumptious they are. A good craft for a rainy day.

The following workshops we made vehicles with the playschemers, from cardboard boxes, kitchen rolls, with dowels, bobbins and mdf wheels. We asked them what would they like to travel in and they came up with all sorts of ideas, fantasy, real, vehicles to go somewhere or to take their toys in. Cars that were fast, cars that could race their friends and cars that looked "old". This workshop was good for a sunny day outdoors the cars, trains and automobiles were robust enough to race in the garden. Enjoy the photos.