BLACK OUT POETRY...
During the school holidays, amongst the balloons and bubbles, the puppet storytime and wrapping kids up as mummies...I ran a black out poetry workshop. My first. It was such fun and it left me amazed at how imaginative and creative kids can be. A very excited group arrived, and interestingly none of them had created black out poetry before. A few had written poetry and one little girl (our ages were 9 plus) had quickly written a poem that morning as she thought that would be needed. I quickly gave an explanation, and showed them examples. We talked of finding an anchor...that one word that would be your starting point. And how to then scour the page for words that could be tied in. We worked on an example on the board...showing how words can be in the same wavelength. LOVE ---They offered up chocolate, boys, friends, kiss, coffee, family, dog etc Or how words can be opposite and create something interesting---they gave me denial, hate, pain, hurt. ...