Ready for Mother's Day

A busy day today as I helped my wife run a practical workshop for some year 6 children (aged 10 or 11) at a north London primary school.

She had been asked to help the children make flower arrangements which they could take home for their Mums for Mother's Day this Sunday. She did something similar two years ago, and the school found it such a success they asked her to run it again this year.

We only had a couple of hours of the children's time, and they had placed orders (and paid) for a large number of fresh bouquets or small buckets filled with silk flowers. My wife provided 70 ready made fresh bouquets which they had to wrap in cellophane, decorate and label. She also supplied over 80 little buckets containing dry Oasis, and the children themselves made these into little flower displays with the silk flowers, decorated with ribbons and labelled them.

All the arrangements then had to be delivered to the children thoroughout the school who had ordered them ready for them to take home at the end of the day.

It was an extremely hectic workshop, but the children were amazing. They all took it very seriously, were very focussed and very enthusiastic. It was lovely to see them working well together, sharing tasks and organising themselves to get all the work completed on time. They were a real credit to the school.

My opportunity for photography was rather more limited than I had hoped, as I was needed to help out with cutting, tying, wrapping, directing, etc. Sadly, I cannot publish here any identifiable images of children, but this shot shows one child's silk flower arrangement in progress.

So now you know where all the flowers I showed yesterday went.