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Grounds, Crowds and Word Clouds

Overhead picture of several pairs of hands assembling a cardboard box
Next, get several pairs of hands to help assemble the box
Two women seated, one with a cardboard box in front of her and the other cutting a piece of green material
Prepare the turf
A woman dressed in a black jersey spreads a piece of green material inside the cardboard box
Laying the turf and smoothing out the pitch
Two elderly women sticking wooden blocks to the bottom of a cardboard box
A little block work is necessary, to assist the players

The morning was spent with the Beech House Bakers, as they folded cardboard boxes, lined them with green ‘turf’ and marked them up for the match.

In the afternoon, the Super Sewter Dudes got to play pen football, before next deciding on their team kit colours—a long period of negotiation and counter-arguments resulted in a vote on orange and purple.

And how did they all feel, by the end of the day—the wordcloud below contains every word they used to describe how they felt.

A series of white decorative drawings, with one depicting figures on a football pitch
The Super Sewter Dudes played pen football
Paper people coloured in orange and purple and various coloured felt tip pens
The Super Sewter Dude team colours
exciting fabulous happy good loved it happy wonderful teamwork great lovely lovely excellent share inspiring happy awesome joyous excited happy edge mindful on pitch impressed excited enthusiastic lovely happy amazing orange and purple awesome dextrous relaxed green yellow energetic joyous impressed
We asked both teams to tell us how they felt at the end of the sessions, and this is what they said

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