June 3rd was hot and sunny compared to the grey rainy day before, and Creative Creatures arrived early at Salisbury Arts Centre to set up for For the Love of Books, a writing and craft workshop in association with Salisbury Arts Festival.
Eleven children were joining us to discuss and explore the magic of books, working out what exactly appeals to us about them, what makes us want to read them, and then beginning the exciting task of deisgning and making our own!
It was a busy but fun morning as students stitched their papers together, marbled or decorated endpapers and then began making the hard back covers for their books.
Every student came up with their own unique designs to reflect their own personality, or favourite genre. With guidance from the tutors they worked on putting together their very own book.
We were very impressed by the enthusiam and imagination of everyone there, and as you can see they produced some fantastic results.
There's a real mix of ideas, from real-life fiction, to fantasy or even just a notebook for thoughts and ideas.
They were all different and original.
In the afternoon we concentrated on the art of writing, exploring different techniques such as sense writing, similies, metaphors and the importance of language, and then the students were able to let their words flow and there was silence in the room, aside from the happy scribbling sound of pens to paper.
It was a most enjoyable day, we had great fun, and we're pretty sure everyone else did too!
