In January 2009, SFN was asked to run a version of their microscope-drawing workshops for some very small people: pre-school children!

In this session at ArtPlay, we incorporated movement activities as a way to build on our collective observations through the microscope. We projected video of microorganisms swimming in water and copied their movements as a dancing game. Using two huge circle of paper on the floor, we created drawings of ourselves as if under a microscope or floating in a petri dish. Parents and children took it in turns to draw around each other, as well as sketch pictures of the new organisms we had met.