Tall Tales and Little Angels!

Staff from The Reader Organisation had a fantastic afternoon yesterday, hosting the event 'Tall Tales for Little Children' at BBC Radio Merseyside, which brought A Little, Aloud for Children to life for some local youngsters and their carers.

The event kicked-off with a brilliant reading of the ever-popular extract from Frank Cottrell Boyce's hilarious novel Cosmic, by the equally popular Radio Merseyside presenter Roger Phillips.

TRO and 'Uncle Roger' get the fun started at the BBC Radio Merseyside studios yesterday, with some readings from 'A Little, Aloud for Children'

 After a couple of delightful readings of poems from the anthology by TRO project workers, and with imaginations fired-up, it was time to get stuck-into some creative and crafty activities...

First-up was the chance to make and decorate some beautiful 3D angels, inspired by the poem 'Angels' by Jan Dean featured in the anthology.

Jessica proudly displays her fab-looking angel...

Sunny and his brother Noah showed us that angels aren't just for girls, with their brilliant 'boy angel' and 'bat angel'!

In the second activity, 'Weird Words', everybody got to be a poet for the afternoon: we penned our own very imaginative verses and stories using words taken from all of the poems featured in the anthology.

Creative hats firmly on, everyone is deep in concentration with their 'Weird Words'

We ended the event by reading-out some of the more imaginative creations by our budding poets, and here's  just a taste of what we came up with ...

'An Anaconda the size of a tower'?!! Yikes.

It was a lovely way to spend the afternoon, and everybody had a great time - so a big thank you to BBC Radio Merseyside and Up For Arts for inviting us to some along and giving us the space to run such a fun event.

Daisy (or is it Minnie?!) gets carried away with 'A Little, Aloud for Children' ...