Storyteller and artist Lizzie McDougal has created these brillant online workshops to entertain the wee ones and let them get creative this Easter holidays.
The workshops have been created for Art Fund's fantastic project, The Wild Escape
The Wild Escape is a major new project led by Art Fund uniting hundreds of museums with schools and families in a celebration of UK wildlife and creativityThe Wild Escape is made possible by lead support from Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants, with additional support from Art Fund and a group of generous individuals and trusts.
These four traditional highland stories are a wonderful way to imagine animals in their natural environment
We hope you find them inspiring and you will make some illustrations for them
Please watch the videos and then do a drawing or painting and take a photo
of it to send into the museum
We would absolutely love to see your pictures
They can be in any medium, crayon, pencil, paint, felt tip what ever
you have and like to use, just take a photo an send it by email to info@westhighlandmuseum.org.uk
The artwork will be sent to Art Fund to be used in the UK wide project.
Here are the stories:
The Red Squirrel and The Red Deer help find the baby
This is the story behind the traditional song TheFairy Lullaby
It also has Blaeberry bushes, Heather and Oak, Rowan and Hazelnut trees
The Eagles Nest
The Golden Eagles nest or Eairy is high on a cliff on the side of a
mountain. Eagles like to catch rabbits and hares but in this story the
eagle takes something else to its nest!
The Salmon of Wisdom
A story as old as the hills, a story that has come over from Ireland of
Wee Finn MacCoul and the Wizard
They are looking for a Salmon river with Hazelnut Trees and all the
wisdom of the world
The Selkie Seal Story
There are many tales of the seal people who love to dance on the shore .
This is the one of the young crofter lad who falls in love with one of
them
The pictures and stories children create will be brought together in a collective work of art that imagines a better future for the wildlife on our doorstep, launched online and in venues across the UK on Earth Day 2023.The Wild Escape is led by Art Fund alongside hundreds of museums, artists and environmentalists, in partnership with WWF, the RSPB, National Trust and English Heritage.The Wild Escape is made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants, with additional support from Kusuma Trust, Foyle Foundation and a group of generous individuals and trusts.
