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Young people across Knowsley are taking part in a fascinating dance and art workshop inspired by an encounter with creepy crawlies!

The sessions, which are being delivered by Merseyside Dance Initiative (MDI), mainly focus on dance and movement for two to five year olds using the interesting theme of little beasties. Books used as inspiration for the programme include ‘Aaaarrgghh, Spider!‘ by Lydia Monk and Eric Carl’s ‘The Very Busy Spider’.

The workshops follow on from the annual extravaganza that is the Green Fayre, which this year housed a Mini Beast themed Early Years area. This gave local young children, parents and early years practitioners a one day taster of the project, in anticipation of the forthcoming six week programme.

To coincide with this impressive creative learning project, MDI are launching an Early Years Mini Beast Resource Pack, which will be available for purchase. Included in the pack are exciting mini beast fact sheets crammed with easy to understand information on dance, movement and art activities related to a wide variety of mini beasts including spiders, honey bees, wood ants, caterpillars and butterflies.

The workshops programme was organised by Early Years Arts Coordinator Hilary Keating.

For further information please contact Charlotte Corrie or Hilary Keating – Knowsley Arts Service 0151 443 5619.

PHOTOS: Youngsters get into the spirit of the minibeasts, including two-year-old Lochana Sureshkumar and four year old Lewis Heart.


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