Our impact

What that looks like

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  Weekly sessions

  Weekly sessions at our space in Great Yarmouth where children and families are cared for and nurtured through the arts such as Music Garden, Magic Dads, and Sensory Play. These sessions offer unhurried time to explore, play, and create together with materials, instruments, and objects in a sensory space. Hosted by Magic Acorns’ specialist early years artists, the space is carefully set up to invite curiosity and intrigue – both for the children and the adults that join us.
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  Creative collaborations

  Creative collaborations with children, early years practitioners, artists, and cultural organisations where connections can be made, and where truly experimental work can be created. Our residency model is a generative, liminal space where artists, young children and their caregivers can step outside of normal day-to-day practice into a world of “so much joy, laughter and wonderful silliness!”
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  Supporting artists

  Supporting artists is a fundamental part of our charitable goals, which we do by offering paid artistic opportunities, mentoring, and creative professional development – with a focus on attracting local artists living or working in Great Yarmouth. We bring artists together with very young children and families to play, experience and ultimately shape what early years arts can be.
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  Training, research, and advocacy

  Training, research, and advocacy that influence how early years arts practice is shaped and challenge conventional approaches to early years work. Our academic research both reflects and informs all our artistic work. Keeping our practice alive and our inquiries dynamic is essential as we grow as a community of artists and forge new ways of developing early years creative arts. Our programme of workshops and seminars reaches participants from around the world.