A cracking afternoon making dinosaur eggs for the parade

We had an absolutely cracking afternoon down at Human Nature's warehouse on the Phoenix estate on Saturday 10th May with artist Katie Griffiths making special dinosaur eggs for this year's parade.

We had parents and some children from each of the school's taking part in this year's Moving On Parade who under the guidance of Katie made their dinosaur egg and baby dino from willow withies, tape and wet-strength tissue.

We enjoyed the gorgeous sunshine outside to make the structure of the eggs and baby dinosaurs. We then moved inside for the messy bit, adding wet-strength tissue to the willow structure. This is applied with a watered down mixture of PVA glue. Each egg needed at least 4 layers to hold its shape.

The finished eggs were then able to dry out in the sunshine and were delivered to schools ready to be decorated.

We call these pieces our collective make. Each school will carry their dinosaur egg at the front of their group in the Parade and whne we arrive back in the Paddock at the end of the Parade they will form a collective art installation. This will be available to come and see at our free evening event on the day of Moving On, Friday 4th July at Twilight Tales.

We can't wait to see how the schools decorate the eggs!

A big thank you to our wonderful artist, Katie!