Novel Inventions Workshop at Petteril Bank Community Centre
We held a creative workshop at Petteril Bank Community Centre in Carlisle. The session invited children to get inventing inspired by ideas sprung from the pages of their favourite books!
Aided by Carlisle Matters, a registered charity with a member network of twelve community centres and community organisations, we delivered the workshop as part of the government's Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme. HAF provides support to children in receipt of free school meals throughout holiday periods.
Our General Manager Craig and workshop facilitator Lottie Smith led the workshop. Participating children dropped in for free and got pages turning and imaginations whirring as they tackled our Novel Inventions Challenge.
Encompassing ten terrific individual challenges, the Novel Inventions Challenge lets children get stuck into their favourite novel and invent to be just like the main character or to add something to the fictional universe.
With something to suit little inventors who are loving picture books and older readers who are becoming engrossed in novels, the challenges are inspired by classics like George's Marvellous Medicine and more contemporary tales such as Amara and the Bats.
We saw many amazing inventions constructed from the range of provided materials, including ones that took the shape of a secret platform entrance, some very intriguing medicine concoctions, and vehicles to find the inventor's way through hidden lands and lost lakes!