HAPPY
* A zine made by Newcastle Virtual School Children in 2025
What’s a Zine?
Zine Artists (00)
The Studio Rules (01)
The Goldfish in the Tank (02)
Paint Pens (03)
Happy Disco Playlist (04)
Animals (05)
Scribble Monsters (06)
Badges (07)
Sneakers (08)
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What’s a Zine?
A zine is from the word ‘Magazine’.
Zines are little booklets, pamphlets or artist books.
ANYONE can make one.
They can be about ANYTHING you like.
Working with artist Nic, we did lots of different creative activities to make the pages of our zine together. We had fun making it.
We hope you enjoy reading it too.
Artists Zine
Here is an alternative portrait of all of the artists involved in the creation of this Happy Zine
Studio Rules
Psst! These were our rules for the day in the studio at Ouseburn Farm, Newcastle. We chatted and decided that these were the most important ones.
The goldfish in the tank
Firstly, we made the important decision of what the fish were called in the fishtank which was in the corner of our studio.
Fish THE TANK
BARRY BOB (SPONGE) BING BEAN BART
We’re not sure why they all had names beginning with B, but when Bev the guinea pig came to visit us later, we knew we’d made the right choice.
We explored different materials, like paint pens and googly eyes
We agreed that googly eyes always make us smile.
We decorated some sneakers...
As a group, we discussed how music can make us feel. Sometimes it can make us feel lots of different feelings. These are some of our favourite happy songs. They are all different, which reflects us all.
Sunflower - Spider:Man Into the Spiderverse Post Malone
Move On Up Curtis Mayfield
Happy Pharell Williams
Into the Unknown Idina Menzel
You’re Welcome Dwayne Johnson
Disco 2000 Pulp
Timber Pitbull & Kesha
Theme from Spider Man TV Series
Michael Giacchino
This Charmin Man The Smiths
Animals
We all had a go with the instamatic camera and went to explore Ouseburn Farm.
We looked around and all chose our favourite animal.
The names of the animals made us laugh. They had really normal names like Dave, Bev, Keith and Gary.
It was nice to leave the studio, move around and see something different to inspire us.
Later in the day, one of the guinea pigs came to visit us in the studio. Her name was Bev. We think she liked our zine artworks.
These are our scribble monsters. Made with scribble and googly eyes. We enjoyed not thinking too much about what we were drawing and just scribbling!
B
We finished the day making badges.
Some of them were for us to keep. We also made them for people we know and love.
We also ate some delicious chocolate cake!
is FOR
Badges
This zine was made in Summer 2025 with 4 young people from Newcastle Virtual School. The day was led by Blue Cabin Associate Artist Nic Golightly.
www.wearebluecabin.com
