Digital Workshops for Schools: The Haircut 14 - 21 Oct 2025
Join artist Duffy Mooney-Sheppard for a visual arts workshop inspired by our Streaming for Schools show The Haircut!
Rather than being ashamed of the parts of himself that make him different, Kwaku celebrated his uniqueness and encouraged the King to do the same. In this workshop, Duffy will call on the themes of the show to guide children as they make a crown that features something fantastically unique for them – maybe as the king of their kingdom they are known for their elephant trunk nose, or perhaps they are the lizard tongued queen! Children will be encouraged to use their imaginations to come up with something different – and celebrate it!
After making the crowns, Duffy will encourage children to make a self-portrait to celebrate all the features real and imagined that make them unique!
Come celebrate the diversity of the classroom through this hands-on, playful workshop!
Curricular Links
The Visual Arts curriculum will be covered through drawing, paint and colour, and print; explore and begin to develop sensitivities; explore the expressive and design possibilities of the materials; look with curiosity and openness at the work of a wide range of artists and craftspeople; experiment in spontaneous, imaginative and increasingly structured ways with a range of art materials
About Duffy Mooney-Sheppard
Duffy is a visual artist, theatre maker and graduate of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Arts. She weaves curiosity, fantasy, and nature into her workshops and has worked extensively with The Ark and other cultural institutions.