CHILDREN'S imaginations ran wild at an art workshop held at the Tower Arts Centre in Winchester.

The Magic Carpet Arts workshop run by Jo Carter for children over seven was fully booked and a great success.

The message was anything goes and the children turned a mixture of paper, glue, paint and wire into animals, aliens and monsters.

Centre spokesman Joanna Roberts said: "The children were so engrossed in what they were doing we haven't seen them anywhere but in our studio area. There they've been able to make as much mess as they liked."