Making SENse Creative

As a very tiny organisation we are delighted to be working with so many amazing partners and supporters on our Accessible Book and Story Festival. Happening in September in Edinburgh and across Scotland!

Many many thanks to all of you: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Scottish Storytelling Forum (TRACS), Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scottish Book Trust, Pamis, Scottish Sensory Centre, Manipulate Arts, Wigtown Book Festival, CALL Scotland, Hachette Children's Group, Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Creative Scotland.

Check out the programme and book your tickets - amazing sensory story CPD workshops and fascinating discussions on how to make picture books more accessible: https://mykindofbook.org.uk/festival/

Tickets for family sensory story sessions will go live in August - watch this space!

Doesn’t nature offer the most beautiful colour palette? The flowers are looking fabulous at Lucy’s, Ardfern. Beautiful mixes of summer bedding; wildflowers; herbs and edibles.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY

We're expanding our team of Creative Facilitators! The role of a Creative Facilitator is to provide inclusive, creative, movement and multi-sensory sessions for adults and children with a variety of multi-sensory needs, learning disabilities and ASD. These sessions follow our unique and licensed Two Rhythms programme.

Find out more and apply via the link below!

https://www.tworhythms.co.uk/join-us

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We can't wait to see you over the holidays at our summer programme events! All events are free, include a drink, snack and a book, and (except for one outdoor adventure!) take place in Craigmillar Library Hub. A couple need to be booked in advance but for all the others you can just drop in on the day.

For parents, carers and children aged 4-12 (siblings welcome) from the Greater Craigmillar area. You don't need to join the project to take part.



My Kind of Book
Art Buds Collective
Elspeth Puppets 'n' Stuff

Amazing ❤️

Beyond what words can express: bringing a World Unseen to life Visitors to World Unseen, a first-of-its-kind exhibition designed with blind and partially sighted people in mind, share their experience of this accessible space.

Just wanted to share this- full of exciting possibilities for collaborations 👍🏼

How lovely to be involved with this fabulous organisation again!

This morning I shared a fun story called Giraffes can’t dance by Giles Andrede and Guy Parker- Rees.
Full of our furry friends and drum beats!
A lovely start for the Greenside pupils on this rainy Wednesday morning 👍🏼

What more can an ASN assistant possibly need? On my last day of the summer term, a beautiful creative picture of Woody and Buzz Lightyear from one of the pupils. The summer holidays are here in Argyll already ☀️🕶️🌧️🌈

Loving the vibrations provided through an activity using a salad spinner. Experiencing it through touch via the mouth and the hands- seem to be just the ticket!
Within the spinner I placed a few glass marbles to create sound and movement in conjunction with the spinning of the container itself.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” – Helen Keller.

A lovely photograph popped up on my page!

A great celebration of Story Massage at their first conference way back in May 2019!!

I was invited along, with my daughter, to present some sensory ideas with the Story Massage community.

Oh look it’s back!! The great dog bottom swap story sharing has returned 😀
So I’m looking forward to sharing this with a young man today and pupils of Greenside School tomorrow- 🐕‍🦺🐩🦮 what could possibly go wrong? 🤣

Lots of sensory props to add an extra dimension- they create a wonderful opportunity to explore a story in more depth. Celebrate communication 👍🏼
Contact me ( Caroline) on [email protected] for more information

I use these in my work and it provides a real sense of achievement.
Great for supporting fine motor skills and visual focus.
Lots of topics to maintain interest.

Well… it’s been a grubby morning here at Making SENse Creative HQ! Sharing another fun story Harry the dirty dog has left me with a dirty face!!! Luckily it’s cocoa powder so it smells lush 😀