Good morning folks!
Today I’m announcing a couple of storytelling workshops for children which we’ve organised for the Easter holidays 🙂

The first workshop will be aimed at 5 – 8 year olds and will be held on the 11th April at 9.30 until 11.00 at new venue “Number One” in Banchory.  

“5 to 8 year olds and their families are welcome to join Pauline Cordiner of Fizzy’s Funtastic Parties for a fun storytelling workshop at Number One, Scott Skinner Square Banchory!

We’ll start off with a game to say hello, listen to a story and then have fun exploring the world of storytelling! The children will have the opportunity to use puppets to tell a story and we’ll play some more storytelling games.

Spaces are limited and must be booked in advance. Cost £5 per child. Please contact Pauline by emailing paulinecordiner@gmail.com for more details.

Number One offers workshop space but also has a coffee where parents can enjoy teas, coffees and delicious cakes while their children are taking part in the workshop. If you wish to join your child in the workshop please let us know 🙂

Pauline has been telling stories at festivals, schools, clubs, castles, libraries and museums for over 15 years and is a member of the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s directory as well as the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature directory and Equity. Since 2016, she has been running “Fizzy’s Funtastic Parties” with her puppet pal Fizzy The Fairy (who has demanded that she be allowed to attend the workshop!) Pauline is fully insured, is a first aider and has her PVG certificate. Fizzy herself is a teacher back in fairy land where she teaches younger fairies the important lessons of “Chaos” and “How To Charm Humans””

Hehe, thanks so much Gayl for sending this photo of Thomas’s Polar Explorer party – I still cant’ believe how amazing the decor was! Wolf and I had a great time telling stories, playing the games, making the snow globes (can’t believe I forgot to take a photo of them!) and doing the polar glitter tattoos!
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Of course there wasn’t just one video.  Frankly, this is because I was having too much fun 🙂

Pauline

So on Sunday I did a Polar Explorer for Thomas’s birthday.  He’s a big fan of all things polar – Scott of the Antarctic, penguins, adventures to the North Pole, Polar Bears etc!  So I put together some games ( such “Captain Scott’s Delicious Dinner”  aka The Chocolate Game with polar hat, scarf and big padded gloves!; Amundsen’s Amazing Icebergs aka musical islands), told the tale of Sedna the Sea Goddess and then we got started on our craft – jam jar snowglobes with little penguins inside!  There were also lots of suitable glitter tattoos.  I also wanted to create a costume and character for the party though and here he is – a rather ruddy faced, windswept chap with a bit of an obsession with penguins!

Hello everyone! 😀
Last year some of you were so kind as to nominate Fizzy’s Funtastic Parties for the “Best Party Entertainer” award and we were a runner up after just a few months of starting up!
Fizzy the Fairy and Pauline are hoping that you would all nominate us again as we’d love to be in the running once more 🙂 Follow the link below and nominate us as “Best Party Entertainer” and “Best New Business Launched Between January and December 2016”
Thankyou so much! 😀 x

smartsurvey.co.uk/s/r2goNominate

One of my favourite things about visiting schools to tell stories is when you get this kind of feedback. It’s the best kind of compliment! This young artist from Arduthie Primary school has got me down to a tee! Photo of the outfit I wore for comparison 😀
Thanks Miss Phillip for sharing the photo! xxx

A wee photo from Farida’s Wizard Party on Saturday – what a fantastic class of young Wizards, Witches and Warlocks! They managed to do all the manoeuvres in their broom training! Top marks and gold stars all round!

World Book Day is almost upon us! And while parents everywhere are putting together last minute costumes for their kids to wear at school on Thursday, I’m preparing a couple of sets for Kaimhill and Hill of Banchory Primaries 🙂

So this weekend I was lucky enough to meet this beautiful wee hissing cockroach as well as the wonderful ladies of Animates who are based in the North East.  No cockroaches featured in any of the stories but Raven, Orion, Scorpio, The Milky Way, Pele the Volcano Goddess, Duban the Sage, the Rainbow Crow, Archimedes, Piltdown Man, Tiddilik the Frog and of course  Roald Dahl’s disgusting armchair beer all got a mention!

My set of stories about science is available for any science festival, exhibition, school, or even birthday parties!  Prior to my life as a party organiser, I worked as an environmental and analytical chemical in the North East oil industry and I love anything that connects science and the arts!

Have a look at the “contacts” page to find out how to make a booking.

I’m all set for telling stories at tomorrow’s Science Festival at Strathearn in Crieff!  I’m super excited to be telling stories of volcanoes, the sun, moon and stars, medicine, evolution and weather along with a couple of tales of famous scientists and famous hoaxes!

“Have you ever wondered what the world was like when we didn’t know so much?  Why were the stars in the sky and who made it rain?  Why did the up stay up and the down stay down?  Why did the owl not sleep at night and why did the frog always live near water?  Why did we have night and day, winter and summer?
Stories have been passed down for thousands of years that explain the world around us and as we learned more over the centuries, they were still told alongside new discoveries in astronomy, zoology, physics, biology, weather and chemistry, maths and geology.
“Join storyteller and scientist Pauline Cordiner for a fun look through some of these tales and the experiences of famous scientists – with a few famous hoaxes thrown in for good measure!  Suitable for ages 3 to 103!

“Booking is required: Show times are 10:30; 11:30; 13:30 and 14:30 – Saturday only”

http://www.strathearnsciencefestival.org/the-science-fun-factory.html