Doodle Story Competition - for all children and young people

We’ve loved chatting to you while making badges, cards and patterns and loved listening to your super stories and finding out about your interests.

We’ll be interpreting these into our artworks, and now we are opening this up further so that everyone has a chance to put pen to paper for this opportunity! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have some of your drawings and stories included in the actual artwork at Waterfall House?! You never know we might like your story so much it gets to be a full feature artwork, whoohoo!

So if you would like to help us with our Magical Journey Quest further, we’d love to hear from you.

Click Here for a downloadable pdf of our Doodle, or you can make your own, just take a line for a walk, a jump and a loop! Colour and fill in details with scenarios that happen in your story then write it all down!

Or you can Click Here for a downloadable pdf of our simpler Story template.

You can share your work by handing in to a member of staff, or by using the dropbox on the second floor reception desk, or by emailing a picture to enquiries@lucentia-design.com.

We have had stories about exploring space, swimming underwater, being animals or just having fun! We want these designs to fill whole walls, so really look forward to seeing and reading your doodle stories.

Below is a story in progress by us… an outdoor adventure inspired by some our of lovely conversations.

Magic Story Recipe: Fun with Patterns

Whilst talking to young people about the potential of the artwork, we’ve been having some fun with an open ended kaleidoscope!

We’ve been looking at the things around us and watched them transform into abstract patterns. Check out the video below!

This had also inspired some creative fun with patterns, it is fascinating seeing the way the shapes can link, overlap or fit into one another!

You can download the activity here

Below are some patterns created by the children and young people.

Let us know what you think - if you check out our Pinterest page we have some super pattern examples there too.

Super Badges

I’ve been chatting to children and young people on the out-patients at Waterfall House to find out about what fascinates them.

We’ve talked about what we would be if we could be anything at all! What our favourite things are, or things to do are. We’ve sometimes made up a short story or simply talked about the sorts of things that would be fun and interesting to look at while waiting for or having treatments.

Let us know what you love!!

Below are some of the badges the children have made.

Magic Story Recipe: Pop Up Cards

This activity gives you the option to create a choice of two pop up cards!

I would like you to think about an exciting adventure to inspire your card.

For my ‘Fan’ card I thought about having a dream that I was inside a rainbow! It was so gorgeously colourful, calm and peaceful - you can download the template here.

For my ‘Tab’ card I thought about having an underwater adventure where I was swimming with iridescent fish and colour changing octopuses - you can download the template here.

Please tell me about a dream you would like to have, or an adventure you would like to go on in the comments below. As always, all your comments will influence the developing designs for the new artwork for Waterfall House.

Thank you for your time.

Rainbow Inspired Adventure Card

Underwater Inspired Adventure Card

Magic Story Recipe: What Would You Be?

This first stage of our creative engagement is all about forming a springboard for our ‘Magic Story Recipe’ which will influence themes and narratives for the artworks.

So, we’re throwing it out there and asking children and young people what they would be if they could be anything at all… absolutely anything!

I LOVE a good daydream and know you have superb imaginations so this could be something real or something imagined… it’s an endless world of wonders and possibilities!

Feel free to comment below, or take a look at all our questions on the activity sheet for younger children here, or for older children here.

Below are the videos we created to support these questions for the in-patients at Waterfall House - if you’ve got some coloured papers handy why not give them a go?!

If you would like to share anything you can email directly and/or put on Instagram, remembering to mention @lucentiadesign @bham_childrens - thank you!!