First booth to visit - Face Painting

Face painting should be the first booth kids need to visit if they are going to join the Nylon Zoo costumes parade and dance or just wanted to put on a fun look throughout the London Family Farm Day.

Kids can choose from the catalog of facial patterns the one they like and our volunteer facial painters will be happy to put up the new face for them. Parents can also be the facial painters for their kids.

We will see a lot of big birds, bees, butterflies and more around on London Family Farm Day.

No kidding - It's a huge Salmon

Ta Daa Lady (Angela Brown) is bringing in the inflatable Salmon and nylon costumes to London Family Farm Day this year for her Nylon Zoo costumes parade and interactive storytelling program. The Zoo program is scheduled to run 4 to 5 times during the event with each time to last for around 25 minutes.

When the program starts, Ta Daa Lady will welcome the participating kids and parents or family members at the gated area where they get ready to take part in the Nylon Zoo. After choosing a costume to dress up, they will then parade around the site and stop in an open space to do a dance where each participant gets to dance or act out, his or her animal. When they return, they will enter the inflatable Salmon for the interactive storytelling by Ta Daa Lady.

The creator of the Nylon Zoo is Evelyn Roth; a world-renowned artist in both fabric art and wearable art and a world-renowned visual and performance artist. Evelyn is the creator of these unique and colorful inflatable sculptures and costumes for parades. She is originally Canadian but she now resides in Maslin Beach Australia with her talented painter husband John Davis (evelynrothoz.com).

Photo source: angelabrown.ca

Learn hand spinning yarn from wool

Hand spinning will be live in action on London Family Farm Day.  The Richmond Weavers and Spinners Guild will participate in London Family Farm Day with members there demonstrating their skills and techniques in making yarn from wool using the traditional wooden spinning wheel.  Kids and family members can have a chance to learn how to use the spinning equipment to make some yarn themselves.

If you have toured the London Farmhouse, you should have found a nice display of wooden spinning and weaving equipment in a room on the upper floor. Spinning yarn with hand-spinning wheels and weaving cloth with hand looms to make garments were common activities for women in family in the olden days. Since then, hand spinning and weaving have become a heritage and art activity.

The Richmond Weavers and Spinners Guild (RWSG) seeks to promote, encourage, and develop the art and craft of weaving, spinning, and dyeing in our community. The Richmond Weavers and Spinners Guild has about 30 members. They meet on the third Tuesday each month from September to June in the Fibre Arts Studio at the Richmond Cultural Center.