cooking-up Kooky cupcakes

On Wednesday 12th June we borrowed Human Nature's Sheds to host a day of making 15 Kooky Cupcakes for this year's Moving On Parade. Our theme this year of 'Welcome To Our Table.'

We had some wonderful parent helpers who came and helped make the cupcake structures from withy and masking tape, cover the withy shapes with wet-strength tissue and PVA glue and cut out fabric squares for a big table cloth.

A big thanks to our talented Patina Artists who led the session Sarah Walpole, Sandrine Case, Mary Fellowes and Leigh Hodgkinson.

The cupcakes will be delivered to each school for them to decorate with their chosen fruit or vegetable and their school name. These will then be carried at the front of each school group in the Moving On Parade.

We can't wait to see them in the Parade! There will be a chance to see them at our evening event on 5 July, Big Picnic in the Paddock from 6-9.30pm.

This year's parade route

It's now under a month until the Moving On Parade 2024! Our wonderful graphic designer, Emma Carlow has produced this beautiful map of this year's route. We would love to know where you think the best place to watch the Parade is!

Patina Presentations

The month of May was super busy for the Patina Team and our partners this year Greencuisine and Movingsounds going into 15 schools to present this year's them of "Welcome To Our Table".

The school's Reps had chosen a number in our "allotment" back in April which corresponded to a list of locally grown fruit and vegetables. So at each presentation the Year 6 children got to find out which fruit or vegetable they had got!

Daphne Lambert from Greencuisine and Keith Ellis from Movingsounds talked and sung about the rich diversity of produce grown locally and the superpowers we get from eating fresh seasonal food. There was so much excitement as each school found out which locally grown fruit or vegetable they will represent in the parade!

The children then had some time with their Patina artist to start coming up with ideas for their costumes. The children let their imaginations grow in designing their wonderful costumes with the amazing Patina artists. We just love seeing the creative ideas from the children.

Schools are a hive of activity as the delicious costumes are made and Moving On will be a wonderful walking allotment on 5 July. We look forward to cheering the children on so our seedlings feel how cherished and rooted they are in our community.