Don’t you think it’s a terrible waste to throw away all those old cereal boxes, empty milk cartons and other household items?  

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could have some fun with them? And help save the planet while doing so?

Well now you can!

Join Junk Jodie in her colourful and recyclable world every Saturday at 3:30pm from August 15th.

And learn to have fun with junk.

A little about Jodie

Jodie was born and raised in Basingstoke, England. She studied for a national diploma in Art and Design at Basingstoke College of Technology and also a diploma in Performing Arts at Queen Mary’s College. Jodie later trained at East 15 Acting School in Essex. Drawing on her love of the incredible, colourful art made from recycled materials which had inspired her during a visit to South Africa, Jodie started a cushion making business called “Love of Clash”.

She was soon noticed and was approached by a company called “Proteus” to organise and run arts and crafts workshops for primary schools. Jodie visited many scrap stores to source materials for these workshops and loved it! It was during this time that Jodie realised how much “usable” junk there was, and that being creative with these materials could be such fun! All you needed was a little imagination! Furthermore, not only was it limitless and cheap, it was also good for our planet! Jodie’s imagination was bouncing off the walls! She had so many ideas and materials to play with. This is when she earned the title “Junk Jodie”.

Jodie now runs workshops at festivals and works within the local community for the underprivileged – one of her favourite projects was making a giant tree from recycled materials.

Performing is still a huge part of her life and over the past couple of years she has performed on cruise ships within their entertainment teams, toured in theatre productions all over England, voiced a number of episodes on YouTube for Sylvanian Families UK toy-play series and starred in a YouTube children’s TV series that helps and guides very young children to overcome worries that they may be experiencing. Jodie was also once a trapeze artist and has run classes for beginners to learn the basic skills of static trapeze.

During the recent lockdown, Jodie started a YouTube channel: Junk Jodie Arts and Crafts to provide children a fun and exciting way to learn arts and crafts using materials that everyone can find at home at a time when face to face community events were cancelled.

Suitable for children aged 3-8 years.