Think about if there have been one thing you might do along with your pencils after they’d been worn right down to stubs aside from chucking them within the bin. MJ Jacob, the Waterford-based artist behind www.madjessie.com, has a suggestion — Plantable Pencils.
These are graphite pencils that may be planted when you end utilizing them. They arrive in packs of 4, and you may select both herbs or flowers.
In the event you go for herbs, you’ll obtain a pack containing thyme, sage, coriander, and cherry tomato seeds. And if you choose flowers, your pencils will develop in to forget-me-nots, daisies, carnations and sunflowers.
The pencils are on sale for €14 from www.madjessie.com.
Household guidelines
This checklist of household guidelines by Dublin-based Fab Cow has us feeling all heat and fuzzy.
The award-winning enterprise, run by artist Francis Leavey and his accomplice, Bernie Cryan, celebrates the kindness, respect, affection, acceptance, and love that make having a household so particular.
It’s one in every of a spread of prints, playing cards, and work created by Leavey and bought at www.fabcow.ie. It prices €29.95.
Making recollections
Youngsters have the funniest ideas and concepts. It’s value taking the time to jot them down for posterity, as they’ll inevitably lose a few of their quirkiness as they become older.
This 3-Yr Journal for Youngsters lets you protect these recollections for years to come back.
Two pages are devoted to every week of the yr. One asks youngsters to reply a query. For instance, they could be requested to call a favorite music. The opposite web page units them an exercise or process.
They could possibly be requested to attract or describe their dream meal after which attempt to prepare dinner it with an grownup.
The next yr, they are going to be requested to reply the identical questions and full the identical actions and duties. This enables mother and father to watch their youngsters’s evolution over the three years.
The journal will inevitably change into a cherished memento for fogeys and youngsters. It’s designed by Emma Jane Leeson, an Irish mum who has written a spread of books, which can be found from johnnymagory.com.
The journal is bought by way of the web site, alongside different present concepts, and prices €24.99.
Pageant of creativity
In the event you’re searching for family-friendly enjoyable this Could financial institution vacation weekend, you’ll discover it in Glenbower Woods in East Cork. Greywood Arts, the organisation that runs group and academic programmes in Killeagh, is internet hosting its Could Sunday Pageant, which celebrates native creativity, historical past, and ecology.
The competition runs from Friday to Monday, Could 2 to five, and can function plenty of free occasions. There will likely be nature walks within the woods, interactive artwork performances, youngsters’s yoga classes, stay music, youngsters’s workshops in artwork and inventive writing, a possibility to construct dens within the woods, bike rides, and extra.
Go to maysunday.ie for the total lineup.
Books galore
Lismore Citadel and city will present the enchanting setting for a celebration of books, tales, illustration, and creativeness this Saturday, Could 2.
The Co Waterford annual Towers and Tales Youngsters’s Ebook Pageant will function a spread of readings, workshops, and different occasions with a number of the hottest Irish and worldwide writers and e-book illustrators.
These embody Sarah Bowie, the creator of the bestselling Nina Peanut is Superb; Leona Forde, author of the Milly McCarthy e-book sequence; and Chris Decide, the creator of the favored Evil Duck and the Feather of Fortune.
Different occasions embody e-book swaps, doodle partitions, circus performers, and e-book clinics, which contain youngsters speaking to the e-book physician about their favorite reads and being given a prescription recommending different books to discover.
- Go to towersandtalesfestival.ie
