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Woody Business
Martin Brockman, a local woodsman, spent an afternoon
with 19 children as part of the Ashford Green Corridor summer events
programme. Children learnt about trees and made African rattles, claves
(sticks made into percussion instruments), and simple whistles from wood,
some of which was gathered from the surrounding woodland. The event took
place in the shade of the willows at Buxford Meadow near Singleton and is
part of a programme of activities organised by the Kentish Stour
Countryside Project. Following the making of the mucial instruments some
of the children sang a song with their instruments. The activities
programme is sponsored by a grant from Kent County Council and the Rail
Link Countryside Inititaive. |
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