DIY Dream Catchers for Story Makers Sophie: What do you do for work? BFG: I catch dreams. Whilst other giants use the 'witching hour' to gobble up people the BFG is doing something nice for them by giving them their dreams instead. And this is how Sophie, who wakes up in the middle night, first spots the BFG, he is blowing a dream into the bedroom window of the children across the street. In both the book and the film the BFG is surrounded by dreams he has bottled and that is the inspiration for this make - to make a dream catcher complete with a dream. But before you reach for a jam jar and fairy lights and given that dreams are both mysterious and magical, why not create your own unique light show to represents your bottled and dream. NeoPixels are easy to program with a micro:bit. Here I have created a NeoPixel string from 4 x Flora RGB NeoPixels and programmed in Python using the code editor here . You could also use a NeoPixel strip and the JavaScri
Maker Fun is celebrating Hannah Festival this week by developing new makes for the summer. We are enjoying the good weather and taking inspiration from the garden as a starting point for activities. We made sun pictures, a big hotel for bugs and a hang out for fairies. This is just the start we have lots more ideas to try out. Bug hotels Fairy Dens