Zine Making Workshops

Birmingham Pilot Sessions:

Zine making workshops were delivered in 2 schools in Birmingham between October – December 2022.

Pre-measures – Introduction to project and pre-assessment measures with pupils (Emotional Awareness Questionnaire, Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale)

Week 1 – Introduction to emotional literacy and Introduction to zines – Zine making activity: ‘about me’ zines – about our favourite things to do

Week 2– Identifying emotions – Zine making activity: collage zines finding images / patterns that remind us of the 6 main emotions from Gloria Wilcox’s ‘Feeling Wheel’ (mad, sad, peaceful, powerful, joyful and scared)

Week 3 – Emotional Regulation – Zine making activity: make a narrative zine using drawing, collage, text or a mixture to illustrate how to get from Blue, Red or Yellow zone back to the Green zone

Week 4 – Stress – Zine making activity: make a poetry zine about something we might find stressful at school and what can help us find calm/manage that situation

Post-measures – Post assessment measures with pupils (Emotional Awareness Questionnaire, Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale), acceptability questionnaire (Children’s Usage Rating Scale) and feedback – Zine making activity: make a zine page about we like (or don’t like) about making zines (for a collaborative class zine).

At the end of the sessions, each student received a ‘zine making pack’, which included some simple instructions on how to make a few different zines, a zine of the ZELP Project reminding the students of everything covered, as well as some basic materials to make some more zines for themselves.