SCORE Swop Shop – Mandela Day event
The three-day Swop Shop painting event in Stanford was a truly communal effort. This collaboration between youth, community organisations and a collection of local artists set the standard for future…
July Holiday Program in Stanford
The holidays are a time when we like to offer some special activities for the children who join our creative sessions. During the July holidays our facilitators Tuliswa and Rachel…
Body tracing: Body awareness activities in early learning intervention
Over the past term we used a body tracing activity with the grade R learners who are in our program. The process leads the children from tracing each other’s body…
Creative Workshop with Colour in Stanford
The theme of last week’s session was, Go crazy with colours. The children who attend our open sessions have requested to paint and we answered their call. The session was all…
Children making their own vegetable garden
This week we planted herbs and vegetables at Die Bron Primary to support the feeding scheme that the school is providing for the children. Die Bron kitchen staff have started…
Children’s Reading with Zhi Zulu
On Sunday 3 June, at our Arts On Main space, we had the brightest little minds join us for a Children’s Storybook Reading of The Herd Boy by Niki Daly,…
Horse-riding Outing in Stanford
This week our Creative Works extra-mural program collaborated with the African Horse Company. We took a small group of children on a horse outing where the guide, Randal, introduced us…
Translations Programme – South African Languages
Following on from our November 2017 poetry event – Poetry in Translation. This event will focused primarily on translations from European languages into Afrikaans and hosted esteemed poets. Such as:…
Exploring colours using soft pastels
Children love messy play. They enjoy playing in sand, mixing water and mud, squishing and squeezing things with their hands and often getting with their whole bodies involved in the process….
Learning through play at Funimfundo Pre-school
During the past week the Grade R learners at Funimfundo Pre-school at Die Kop just outside of Stanford were guided by teacher Nandipha and Occupational Therapist, Regina, through some body…