Seven Stars Newshound Reporters

Tim: "Yesterday we hosted our own festival called Come On Down. This year it was at the Isabella Community Centre in Blyth."

Andy: "We had groups from different places like Berwick Northstar Centre who did line dancing and also Gillian did a tap dance. And also Twisting Ducks had two videos about what they can do. Barndale and Dilston College and also the SpLinter Group came down. Bedlington Day Centre did a puppet show 'the Rose of Bedlington' in the afternoon. We watched a video about last year when we made a hat. We sang I Had A Dream, When I Say Nothing At All and then Ain't No Sugar Left Blues."

Tim: "We wrote Ain't No Sugar Left Blues ourselves."

Ann: "I like meeting people lots. Dinner was very good. Lots to eat. I enjoyed people working with us. I liked the singing and talking."

Gavin: "I enjoyed the videos by Twisting Ducks, especially the cars in the videos!"

Darren: "I enjoyed playing Kroll in our shadow puppet story, and Bedlington's shadow puppet story was good too."

Alan: "Gavin had the Sea Lord and he was good at it. I liked other people's work."

Mark: "I enjoyed playing Killian who was the hero. I enjoyed watching videos and the hat video."

Paula and Anthony's list of materials you will need to create your own shadow puppet play:
card, sticks, tape, scissors, dream music, lights, black pens, a white sheet, light and a 'mint' story.