More-than-human literacies in early childhood
Join us for the next in our popular series of Magic Webinars: More-than-human literacies in early childhood with Professor Abi Hackett Tuesday 21 October 2025,…
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Magic Acorns creates spaces where children, families and artists can flourish through the arts.
Guided by children’s innate curiosity and creativity, we’re helping to shape early years arts practice with moments of joy, connection, and generation.
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WAVELENGTH EP
To coincide with Bandcamp Friday on 3rd October we are delighted to share WAVELENGTH EP. This music grew out of an early years art project…
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Lessons in Surrender and Intuition
What I learned on the WAVELENGTH artistic residency – reflections by artist, Taeside. 5th May Most of us resist instinct, I think. We have, in…
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Become a Magic Friend
Become a Magic Friend for £5 a month and help us to keep growing Magic Acorns all year round.
Your regular support helps us to provide free, high-quality creative experiences for babies, toddlers, families, and artists.
Children and families
We run free weekly sessions for 0-3s to explore materials, sound and objects, hosted by our specialist early years artists.
creative training
We deliver inspirational, cutting-edge creative professional development training to early years practitioners, artists and cultural organisations.
RESEARCH
We are creative researchers with an international reputation for boundary-pushing thinking in arts and education. Academic research, philosophy and thinking-with-children reflects and informs all our artistic work.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
We offer paid artistic opportunities, mentoring, and residencies to bring artists together with children and families to play, create and develop their practice.
