A pebble, a money box and a spooky painting

  Photo originally uploaded by Ernest Descals. Following our trip to Hove museum, the Piglets group moved on to thinking about objects we own and how they can inspire writing. After reading two great poems about a money box and a pebble by Michael Rosen, we chose an object that belonged to us or someone [...]

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The Battle in the Bath

  Attack Of The Toy Knights, originally uploaded by Fotogravirus. We had a lot of fun at Hove musuem a couple of weeks ago writing about the stories behind objects. Here’s William’s story. It features a display of toy soldiers that you can see in the toy department on the first floor of the museum, [...]

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When I ride my bike…

We had fun on Saturday leading a ‘Words on Wheels’ trail in Hove Park as part of the Council’s Bike Week activities. Children had to ride round and find word clues and use them to write poems about cycling.  Here are some of my favourite lines taken from all the poems that were written by [...]

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Cinematic Experiences

The Ghost cinema, originally uploaded by phill.d. Lots of memories are evoked when we go to the cinema, as both Piglets and Saddlebacks found out in their writing sessions this week. Local readers’ and writers’ forum, QueenSpark Books, are compiling interesting texts written by people from Brighton and Hove about the history of cinema in [...]

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Girl on the chair

Frankie chose this atmospheric postcard in last week’s workshop. It is called ‘Resting’ by Vilhelm Hammershoi. Here’s what Frankie wrote, inspired by the image: I’m sitting in this chair a very lonely chair I don’t know what to write I really, actually don’t. I’m listening for a pin  a very quiet pin but I’m really, [...]

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A Giraffe’s New Year’s Resolutions

  Skylight Giraffe, originally uploaded by MerlinJnr. The Piglets also had fun last week coming up with some New Year’s resolutions – not for ourselves, of course, but for our pets and other animals. Here’s Lillie’s resolutions for a giraffe: I promise to grow as tall as the trees I promise to eat loads more [...]

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Streets for the People – Piglets’ Storywalk

Like the Saddlebacks, the Piglets really got their teeth into creating some very strange stories on our storywalk. We had a great time wandering around and getting inspiration from the ordinary things and turning them into places where very strange things happen. One of our new Piglets, Scout, came up with some great ideas. The [...]

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Listening

    Photo courtesy of  debastoba. Last week in the Piglets workshop we wrote some pieces inspired by music from the film Talk to Her (one of my favourite fims!) This is the first time we’ve tried writing from music at Little Green Pig, but it’s a really simple and effective exercise that can lead off [...]

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Battling with Ballads

Ever tried to write a ballad? It isn’t easy, but the Saddlebacks composed an impressive variety of poems, attempting to stick to the patterend rhythm and rhyme. We started off by listening to some famous love song ballads (or famous for some of us!) and then thought about the various techniques that the form of [...]

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What’s your story?

   Piglets and Waterstones competition, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.    Both the Piglets and Saddlebacks wrote entries for the Waterstones What’s your Story writing competition yesterday. It’s amazing how the chance to win £500 of book tokens got the creative juices flowing! With the Piglets group we played a word association game to come up [...]

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