ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
Lockdown free printables from The Nature of Play
As the lockdowns continue we've decided to group together all of our free printables for convenience and easy access.
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Cooped-up conversations
Good conversations can change the world – and deepen our connections to each other. While many of us are still at home, let's seize the chance to get to know our curious, thoughtful, sage and silly children a little better. With our #coopedupconversations, we're posing a daily series of gently probing questions to ask children – and sharing their responses!
The questions are available in English and Spanish. Please feel free to adapt them to suit your child's age, interests or attention span...
Download your daily prompts here – and please tag @fannyandalexander or #coopedupconversations on Instagram to be part of the project.
Anthropologie | Weave a beautiful basket
Tuesday 26 May
We're hosting a basket weaving session with our friends @anthropologieeu. We'll show you (and your kids) how to make the beautiful, simple baskets from our book. All you need is some paper, scissors, tape.
As well as producing beautiful, functional objects at the end, the process of weaving is brilliantly meditative, easy to learn and swiftly gratifying. It’s such a universal practice, but it can also prompt consideration for the ways in which cultures and humans throughout time are both distinct and different.
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Free printable activities from The Nature of Play
We're sharing a few of our favourite activities from our new book to buoy spirits, happily while away a few hours, and encourage children to roam unconfined around their imaginations. Make a pinhole camera, build your own marble run, bake irresistible alfajores or create a special scene – without leaving the house!
Like all the activities in The Nature of Play, they're simple, seasonal, require little more than curiosity, and provide a precious few minutes of calm enjoyment for children (and brief respite for adults!).
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Dye your own Easter eggs
Egg-dyeing has been around for centuries – it’s still a gentle, magic trick to see them transformed using only scraps of vegetables, water and time. You probably have most of the materials on hand, so you can try it out on any rainy day, though it’s especially sweet at Easter. Try your own experiments, too – use wax crayons to create pictures on your egg’s surface or whatever spices you have in your cup-board. The end product may be pretty, but it’s the playing that’s the point.
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Liberty London | Create a seasonal mobile
Create a seasonal mobile with Fanny & Alexander
Saturday 16 November
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Apple Covent Garden | Art Lab for Kids
Art Lab for Kids:
Design Your Own Toy with Fanny & Alexander
Saturday 7 September
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Kids will get creative to design a unique toy with the founder of Fanny & Alexander, experts in toy design. They’ll work together to think big, sharing and exploring fun ideas as they learn how to design their very own toy creation. Then they’ll get hands-on with iPad and Apple Pencil to draw their ideas. Devices available, or bring your own. Great for ages 8–12.
Kids will think big and get hands-on to design their own toy with the founder of Fanny & Alexander. Great for ages 8–12.
Liberty London | Create your own kite
Create your own kite with Fanny & Alexander
Saturday 23 March
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Activities
We love to plot adventures large and small, from making a map of all the animals that live in your neighbourhood, to building a cosy den on a rainy day, to constructing works of art from natural materials you can find in your local park.
From time to time, we'll share some of our favourite activities for you to enjoy – and we hope you'll share your wonderful days and discoveries with us, too.
Just tag us on Instagram @fannyandalexander or use the hashtag #F&AOutdoorPlay, if you'd like.
I spy with my little eye...
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Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires | Small craft
Organized and curated by Fanny & Alexander
PEQUENOS OFICIOS II
Idea y coordinación: Delfina Aguilar (Fanny & Alexander)
TALLERES
Participan: Julieta Seoane, Manuel Rentero y Johanna Wilhelm
Taller de serigrafía: miércoles 17 y 24 a las 15:00 y 17:00
Taller de arte en papel: viernes 19 y 26 a las 15:00 y 17:00
Para chicas y chicos de 4 a 10 años, acompañados por un adulto.
Duración: 75 minutos.
Costo: $30 por persona. Cupos limitados.
Entradas a la venta a partir de las 12:00 el mismo día.
*Se venderan hasta 4 entradas de niños por adulto.
DEMOSTRACIONES EN TIENDAMALBA
Participan: Martin Sabater y Johanna Wilhelm
Laboratorio de papel: miércoles 17 de 15:30 a 17:30
Fabricación de jabones: sábado 20 y domingo 21 de 15:30 a 17:30
Serigrafía: miércoles 24 de 15:30 a 17:30
Para chicas y chicos de 5 a 15 años.
Entrada gratuita. Hasta agotar la capacidad de la tienda.
Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415. www.malba.org.ar
Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires | Small craft
Organized and curated by Fanny & Alexander
This year the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires's design initiative devoted to children appointed Delfina Aguilar, founder of Fanny & Alexander, a children's label, as guest curator. The Fanny & Alexander brand offers an array of objects rigorously crafted by artisans from noble materials. From wood-carved toys and hand-knitted jumpers to an interiors line, F&A is committed to enriching the lives of children through beautiful, simple and enduring objects that embody a nostalgic notion of play.
The exhibition seeks to highlight the value of craftsmanship in the production of objects with which children interact daily. Specifically, children will observe the process involved in the craft of soap-making, binding, silk screen printing and knitting.
Children will be able to apply these techniques in a space especially designed for them to engage with the materials first-hand. In this way, the event will be an opportunity to explore ways of playing that are also ways of creating. The goal is to convey, through a playful experience, the idea that craftsmanship is a fundamental part of the value of the finished product.
By encouraging children to experiment with different techniques through which materials are molded into new objects, this project aims to stimulate active forms of play that foster manual skills and exercise imagination and creativity. Fanny & Alexander thus hopes to instill in children the value of enduring objects produced from noble materials through careful craftsmanship while at the same time inspiring parents to keep these value alive.
PEQUENOS OFICIOS
Idea y coordinación: Delfina Aguilar (Fanny & Alexander) con la colaboración de Yanina Schenkel
Participan: Martin Sabater, Victoria Cascón y Franco Peralta.
Presentación: martes 17 de julio de 16:00 a 19:00 en Tiendamalba.
Para chicas y chicos de 3 a 11 años, acompañados por un adulto.
Entradas libre y gratuita. Cupos limitados.
En la novena edición de malba.niños, ciclo de diseño, Tiendamalba convoca a Delfina Aguilar, quien junto con sus colaboradores mostrarán como se hacen algunos productos cotidianos. Los niños podrán luego aplicar lo aprendido en un taller.
Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415. www.malba.org.ar