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get it right. These are the things joyful way they engage with art ,

I used, artists canvas as a base and as an educator I had
layer, wallpaper paste to glue, agonised about how I could so
acrylic paint, a selection of easily interrupt and disrupt that
sewing thread and my fabric stash. joy by planting ideas of success
I sat at my desk in the middle of and failure .This had happened to
a pile of fabric and me as it does to so many. As I
began cutting, tearing and gluing. began sticking down bits of
no sketch, no plan, no idea what fabric, I felt closer to that
it was going to be. As a teacher child like freedom again. I was
of art to young children for many tapping into my inner instincts
years I had seen the natural and and knowledge and something was