Events

An event for parents and children aged 3-8 year olds, involving face painting, storytelling, games and craft activities themed around Polish and Irish folklore and tales. The event has the capacity for 30 families to be involved, with a mixture of Polish, Irish and International communities being represented. A team of 10 volunteers will be present on the day coordinating this event (all adult volunteers are Garda Vetted and receive Child Protection training).

Moderator: Anna Wang, Joanna Tobiasz, Aleksandra Madeła

1. a)  Artistic design: dragon fire

Materials and accessories: Paper cups or rolls of toilet paper

Paint (green, brown)

Green or brown pompoms

Moving eyelets for gluing

Tissue paper (yellow, orange, red)

Paintbrushes, paintbrushes, scissors, glue

Method of execution: We will paint the Roll on the green color and leave to dry then stick it to the larger green pompons. Stickers with eyes are glued with one side of the roll and the other side of the smaller green pompoms as nostrils. We will cut the paper to narrow strips and stick the paper strips inside the rollers from the nostrils.

1. b) Literary part: “Legend of the Wawel Dragon” – Storytelling aloud using puppets.

Materials for making puppets:

– cardboard paper, various colors

moving eyes

acrylic paints of different colors

glue stick

scraps of materials in different colors

yarn, various colors

wooden sticks for ice cream

tissue paper, crepe in various colors