Home-Made Hero
Fun Palaces always welcome children and young people taking the lead, so here’s a great idea from Bounce Theatre – handing over thanks, gratitude, praise to friends, neighbours and family. Here’s how to make your…
Category: Tiny Revolutions of Connection
#TinyRevolutions – Gratitude
Here at Fun Palaces we have a lot to be grateful for – the enthusiasm of our Makers, the brilliance of our extended team across the UK, the dozens of Tiny Revolutions that have been…
#TinyRevolutions – The White Fox
Sometimes, just sitting down and listening to a story can also be a Tiny Revolution – some days we all need to stop for a moment and rest. Here’s a reason to take a break…
#TinyRevolutions – Sounds of the Forest
Tale part in a worldwide Tiny Revolution from our friends, Fun Palaces Makers Wild Rumpus. Timber is an annual three-day festival at the heart of the National Forest, celebrating the connection to trees and woodlands…
#TinyRevolutions – Post Quarantine
Post Quarantine (letters to open when this is all over) is a mail art project created by Nikky Lyle, Em Williams and Claire Medcalf. It’s a chance to show off your creativity and feature in…
#TinyRevolutions – Sharing Joy
At Fun Palaces we are very aware that while there has been amazing community connection and generous caring during the Covid crisis, for many people these glimmers of hope and connection are part of a…
#TinyRevolutions – Make a Shrine
This week our Tiny Revolutions are prompts from Contact Manchester’s A Week’s Notice project. Shrine by Tammy Reynolds Make a shrine. This could involve candles, incense, flowers, grass, onions, eggs, objects. Anything. It can be…
#TinyRevolutions – walking better for better health
Fun Palaces Maker Robin Lansman D.O., Osteopath from Body Backup Healthcare ran a walking workshop at the Maida Vale Library Fun Palace in 2019, he shares some ideas for walking well … Do you remember…
#TinyRevolutions – Dress How You Feel
This week our Tiny Revolutions are prompts from Contact Manchester’s A Week’s Notice project. Dress How You Feel by Ali Wilson How are you feeling today? Tired? Joyful? Quiet? Confused? All of the above? Put…
#TinyRevolutions – #lowspoonmeals
This week our Tiny Revolutions are prompts from Contact Manchester’s A Week’s Notice project. Here’s Suriya Aisha’s prompt – #lowspoonmeals Spoon theory is a disability metaphor – daily activities all require a number of ‘spoons’…
#TinyRevolutions – Rewilding
Veteran Fun Palaces Makers Farnham Fun Palace shared these images of their latest Tiny Revolution – rewilding of a wilder kind. They say: Inspired by XR Farnham who invited the community to help grow the…
#TinyRevolutions – Tree of Life
Fun Palaces Makers St Margaret’s House share this lovely Tiny Revolution they’ve been working on with their own local community. St Margaret’s mission is to promote positive social change by creating opportunities for people to…
#TinyRevolutions – Little Box of Friendship
Here’s a Tiny Revolution in progress from Footprints Theatre Company. This is what they say about their idea – and see below for how to create your own Little Box of Friendship. Sending virtual hugs…
#TinyRevolutions – The Fairy Doors of Leith
The Edinburgh Tool Library is a sharing resource for craft, garden and DIY equipment. By sharing, we are all richer. The library works like a regular book library, but we loan out tools rather than…
#TinyRevolutions – A Tad Bigger!
Another instalment in our great spawn-tadpole-frog Tiny Revolution from the Highlands. Our nature-connecting ambassador Alis Ballance updates us … Life is tough, and it’s not just we as humans who face deadly threats. Frogspawn don’t…
#TinyRevolutions – Kitchen Creatures
Here’s a Tiny Revolution from Rhian Williams in Penybontfawr, Wales. These playful creatures are very adaptable, and don’t mind being made with any scrap materials from around the home. If you don’t have a large…
#TinyRevolutions – Drama Challenges
Emma Rucastle is passionate about the power of creativity to bring us together and the importance of play to our mental health. She is currently posting fun drama challenges three times a week from ELART…
#TinyRevolutions – Masker-Aid
Another Tiny Revolution from the Highlands. One of our two Fun Palaces Ambassadors in Scotland, Alis Ballance says … I got the mask-making idea from a friend, Kristiana Gotzsche-Robertson, who has been making masks for…
#TinyRevolutions – Growing Together
From our Northern Ireland Ambassador Siobhan Kearney, a tiny revolution about staying in touch when actual contact is not possible … Portglenone Paddlers was set up in 2018 in response to an increasing demand from…