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Home is …

By Miles Row

Part of Friends Around the Table

Enjoy our simple step by step Create guides devised by professional artists and foragers for Friends Around the Table. Absolutely no experience is necessary, these activities are accessible for most people and can be undertaken in your own time. We enjoyed this one so much that we included it in the activity boxes activity boxes for groups to use with or without a group leader. We hope that people beyond those taking part in Friends Around the Table can also enjoy these.

Each guide welcomes you to explore food and nature in new and exciting ways to bring some relaxing and creative activity to your day. Once you have had a go, why not share the skills you have learned with a neighbor, friend or family member!

In this exercise we will be looking at all the things we associate with our home. Arji Mamielpillai was inspired to create this plan because he read an amazing poem by the Somali Poet Warsan Shire. She wrote a poem called Home which opens with the powerful lines:

“no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.”

this was a powerful reflection of her life as a refugee fleeing for her life. However, in our poem we are going to reflect on our own homes. The tastes, sounds, sights and feelings in our homes. They could be true to your life but they could also be made up. It really is up to you.

Home is... activity read out loud

Activity

1. Think about what food you associate with home. For example, it could be Home is mum’s chicken curry or home is spag bol and my wife stealing all the parmesan. Write it below

Home is ………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2. Think about what sounds you associate with home. For example, it could be home is the sound of my granddaughter kicking a football. Or it could be Home is the chaser beating the contender. The more unique the better. Write it down

Home is …………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Think about the sights you associate with home. For example, it could be Home is my mum on the hob, sleeves raised, smiling. Or it could be Home is football and a Carlsburg in my hand. Write it below

Home is .…………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. Think about what smells you associate with home. For example home is the smell of grass wafting in from the window. Or home is the smell of a new morning. Write it below

Home is ..…………………………………………………………………………………………………

5. Think about what the feelings you have in your own home. For example, home is feeling like you belong or home is feeling contented. Or home is safety.

Home …………………………………………………………………………………………………..

You can write these out on a fresh piece of paper. You are free to add more ideas, to change the order to give it more power, you could also perhaps add your own unique ideas to the mix. The most important thing is to have fun writing, everything else will come naturally.

You will need

Something to write with.

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If you’ve enjoyed this DIY activity and would like to make a donation to Suffolk Artlink please visit our CAF Donate page here https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/9780#!/DonationDetails. Every penny will help.

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