MUM Amanda Boorman and five-year-old son Tremaine have thrown themselves into a frenzy of poppy making for their village’s First World War commemoration.

Rowde will launch a poppy trail next Thursday, with as many houses and businesses as possible putting poppies in their gardens.

Parish council chairman Jackie Bawden said: “Our aim is to create a walk around the parish, so people can look for poppies in gardens and on buildings.

“They can then find letters on some of the poppies and rearrange them to find a message.”

Ms Boorman, 46, a data analyst of The Bunnies, was inspired to create a large crop of poppies after son Tremaine took part in a war project at Rowde Primary School.

He traced his great-great-grandfather’s war record and, during the summer holidays, visited his grave in Belgium.

Ms Boorman said: “I think the poppy trail is a great idea and we have been making poppies out of all sorts of materials.

“We will have a lot in our garden, but we will also give them to other people in the village, who have not been able to make one themselves.”

The trail runs until November 12, but there will also be a permanent reminder in the form of a mosaic.

Mrs Bawden said: “The aim is to cover the village with poppies of all sizes, made from a range of materials: glass, wood, felt, recycled materials, paper or plastic.

“Angie Singh, who helped us make the [Queen’s Diamond] Jubilee mosaic displayed in the Village Shop, is going to help us make mosaic poppies that will become permanent reminders of what happened 100 years ago.”

Every child at Rowde Primary School has been given a packet of poppy seeds to plant and the flowers will also be grown in the churchyard.

Autumn’s commemoration events will culminate in two services: one at 3pm on Remembrance Sunday on November 9 and an extra Service of Remembrance at the War Memorial in the churchyard at 11am on November 11.