[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-blue-peter-shape-challenge":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"If you're on Twitter, maybe you'll be aware of the regular \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StudioTeaBreak\">@StudioTeaBreak\u003C/a> drawing challenges, including #ShapeChallenge, where Alison Diamond and I post shapes which people then turn into pictures. The producers of the BBC's Blue Peter loved that idea, and while my \u003Ci>Legend of Kevin\u003C/i> co-author \u003Ca href=\"http://philip-reeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> and I were in Media City for Newsround, the Blue Peter gang got us to do some drawing for them! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-philip-reeve-sarah-mcintyre-drawing-challenge\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/584004_original-08c32fbdbf.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Peter\" title=\"Blue Peter Shape Challenge\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-philip-reeve-sarah-mcintyre-drawing-challenge\">The video\u003C/a> shows how Kevin is constructed out of a simple half circle, and then quickly moves on to the team daring Philip and me to make pictures from other shapes. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-philip-reeve-sarah-mcintyre-drawing-challenge\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/584211_original-a0e13a429d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd then we turned the objects and characters we'd made out of the shapes into a story! \\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-philip-reeve-sarah-mcintyre-drawing-challenge\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/584649_original-e312aae008.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIt's a bit madcap, but the Blue Peter team have written up a basic synopsis of it:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-philip-reeve-sarah-mcintyre-drawing-challenge\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/584959_original-4da8997f68.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-philip-reeve-sarah-mcintyre-drawing-challenge\">\\r\nThe website comments are open\u003C/a> if anyone else wants to take part. You can make it a game for yourself or to play with a friend, making up drawings from shapes. Then use those shapes in a story! \\r\n\\r\nHere we are with Blue Peter editor \u003Cb>Helen Varley \u003C/b>and her camera crew. Oh, and you can \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/the-legend-of-kevin/\">learn how to draw Kevin step-by-step on my website\u003C/a>! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/585031_original-8e66d0e5da.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2018-11-18T20:10:00.000Z","blue-peter-shape-challenge",[],"blue peter shape challenge!",1776628729870]