ALTON’S creative writing group, called Putting Pen to Paper, is staging its next creative course.

It is aimed at for children aged seven to 11 who enjoy writing and performing pantomimes.

Putting Pen to Paper is a community, not-for-profit initiative run by children’s author Sarah Lucas and children’s worker Kate Collins and is funded by East Hampshire District Council’s Community Project Fund, Alton Beer Festival, Waitrose (Alton), as well as other organisations and private individuals.

The course, which begins at 9.30am this Saturday, November 5, runs for six weeks and will look into exactly what makes a good pantomime.

There will be work on caricatures, plots and scripts with Little Red Riding Hood, Aladdin and Cinderella, some of the pantomimes to be reviewed.

The challenge will then be for the children, individually or in groups, to work up a plot and to write their own scripts, the best one of which will be worked up, rehearsed and performed in class at the final double session.

There will be dressing up opportunities and loads of fun and laughter.

Entry is by booking only with tickets priced £20 per child.

For more details, or to book a place, call Sarah Lucas on 01420 587351 or email [email protected].