Nursery World - Learning and Development: Creativity

In a bid to improve creative opportunities for the under-fives and their families in Somerset, four artists were placed in nine children's centres. Louise Monks reports on the project's progress.

Take Art's two-year Little Big Bang (LBB) project was set up because we believe that children and families need, and have a right to, creative and cultural activities and that these activities can help a child's development and improve their quality of life.

When it was conceived in 2009, Little Big Bang was determined to increase creative opportunities for the under-fives and their families in Somerset. To achieve this, four artists, or Lead Creative Practitioners (LCP), were placed in permanent positions within nine children's centres and arts venues across the county, with each artist covering a 'constellation' loosely centred around one of Somerset's main market towns:

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