Imagine Children’s Festival is for children by children. For 2013 Imagine is back with an amazing line-up of authors, performances, workshops and free events, as chosen by a panel of children for children. This year, all the illustrations for Imagine Children’s Festival have been created by illustrator Jon Burgerman with the help of the Festival Ideas Cloud.
The Festival Ideas Cloud is made up of 32 children from eight local schools and this year this group have helped to plan our 2013 Imagine children’s festival.
First of all the group helped us to choose an illustrator. The children reviewed previous marketing campaigns for the festival and commented on the different types and styles of illustration that they liked…and most importantly that they wanted to see used this year! It was their advice that led us to select Jon Burgerman to work with.
The Imagine Ideas Cloud get inspiration from the illustrations of Jon Burgerman
After helping to choose the illustrator the children began imagining and designing characters of their own that would represent the festival:
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- Arif from Wyvil Primary School shows us his cartoon monster
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- Sinead shows us her Imagine character
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- Lucca introduces Wired and Wonderful
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- Jahela from Wyvil Primary School and Baby Candy Man
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- Getting creative
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- Hard at work designing Imagine characters
We then sent all of the children’s work to Jon who worked with all the drawings to create our very own Imagine team of monsters to represent the festival:
Finally, the children worked in six different groups to come up with names for the monsters and also decided what their favourite food is, where they are from and what their hobbies are:
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- Hairy Rain loves to play football with his friends; it’s his favourite thing in the world. He drinks rain and his favourite food is chicken nuggets. He comes from a rain cloud but now you can find him in a fridge, as that’s where he grew big!
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- Smiley comes from the planet smiles. Her favourite food is rainbows and she loves to fly and play any games she can. Her wings mean that she can fly super fast, as well as this she can camouflage herself .
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- Joey is from Mars. His favourite thing to eat is giants and eating is his main past time. As well as this Joey likes to jump out and scare people.
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- Mr Marshmallow lives in a giant banana and is a bit of a cheeky chap. He likes to eat marshmallows (obviously), especially when they are dipped in chocolate. His favourite hobby is jumping out of helicopters at weekends.
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- Dub-Lin comes from the Planet Snot where they live in Snot Mansion. Their favourite food is animal snot and bones. Their main hobby is farting which is fun because it makes them fly.
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- Shobotting comes from a lightning storm. Her favourite hobby is collecting lightning and shooting it at people. She eats anything electric and on the weekends she likes to chill and make electric smoothies.
Find out more about Imagine Children’s Festival including a full line-up of events on our website.
