On Wednesday we went back to Heathfield Primary School, but this time to work with some of the year 2's. We decided to take along activities which involved making imagery of hands. 
We thought it would be good to talk to the children about what we use our hands for.
So we used this giant hand to start the session. We stood in a circle and talked as a group about the different things we use our hands for, and then we each held up the hand and introduced ourselves, I said "My name is Anna, and I use my hands for making art." and then each of the children in turn did the same. This was a good ice-breaker, and the children liked holding the giant hand.
Then we did various activities in order to generate lots of hands to stick onto the giant hand. 
We drew around each others hands, and decorated them like the Moroccan Khamsa sign for good luck.
We wrote words on the hands of things we use our hands for. We used feathers, sequins, stickers, coloured paper and foam letters and shapes.
We scanned our hands in, and printed them off. We kept going until we had enough to cover the whole of the big hand.
Then we laid the hand on the floor and starting carefully sticking all of the hands we had made on. 
There were quite a few to stick down, but we had fun doing it. 
In the end we all admired our hand-y work...
I learnt that felt pens are not the best things to use for drawing around hands.Last time we visited the school we left a big stack of our postcards with Mo, and he distributed them around the school. During the session children would pop in to deliver their postcards, we got lots of great comments, and dreams for the future, which we were really pleased with. We have decided to display the postcards at the Showcase Event on May 16th, because we are so pleased with them. Thank you to Heathfield Primary School for having us, we had a lot of fun - and a special thank you to Mo, for organising things for us, and being so brilliant.
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