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Get a cup of tea (or juice) and a biscuit, put on “The Magic of Making” DVD and sit back and relax. Be transported away to beautiful countryside where sheep are sheared. Grimace at the washing of the lanolin (grease) and dirt from the fleeces and marvel and how clean they come out and are spun, finer and finer until they are made into beautiful jumpers. Or watch the felling of a large conifer tree, trimmed, tidied, and munched down until it is so fine it can be mixed with water among other things. Then see the moment is it born into its new life as paper, squeezed and lifted gently off a huge roll. The Magic of Making takes every day things and makes you think about them again in a completely different way.

The Magic of Making is currently James’s favourite DVD and it’s one of those ones that even Mum and Dad are still watching, no matter how many times a day it is played in the Gant household.

The Magic of Making is all about how things are made. On the first DVD there are bottles starting with the sand and cullet, woolly jumpers starting from the sheep and even church bells. Each process is explained with easy to listen to and easy to understand narration and is clear but not over basic. So it is appealing to James’s ears as well as ours. And the filming has been beautifully done so you can see the paper when it is very first formed and picked from the felt roll that has helped create it.

Have a look at the MOM (Magic of Making) website for a preview of one of the films and details on how to order. The DVDs are available from the Early Learning Centre and Baby IQ. But we bought ours at the Black Sheep Brewery in Masham, who feature in the films. And as a lover of the Yorshire Dales I would of course recommend this is the best place to buy it!

I know there is another DVD coming out shortly and I hope there will be a series of these fascinating, educational and yet, relaxing to watch, films.

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