Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

Finished on the 16th October, this project at Southfields Community Primary School in Coventry was our first foray into the complex and remarkable world of plastic casting.To show the kids the dangerous chemicals that we'd be using to cast their mini masterpieces we set up our lab outside.

Then we went into each class (R, Y1, Y2) and did some relief work and random Matisee-inspired-shape-cutting-out to produce the inserts that would go inside each of the 140 resin blocks.

With all of the inserts completed, and a design for a giant WELCOME to be embedded into the

blocks approved by head teacher Paul, the Big Art People holed up in the lab for the next few days to work their alchemical wonders.

The blocks were left to set, then placed in the ground and put to bed over the weekend whilst the

adhesive beneath them and the varnish on top of them, cured.

And here are the results (shown with the original plan)!

They're so shiny that it's difficult to do them justice in a photo. You'll just have to trust that they look brilliant when viewed with the naked eye!

Crafts in Coventry #2

As promised, here are a few photos from today's workshop with KS2.

They made storybooks...

...and headdresses...

...and everyone had a great time!

We're heading down to South Staffordshire for the next fortnight to run the rest of our summer craft workshops. So there's plenty of planning to do!

Crafts in Coventry

Here are a few photos from the first of two craft workshops we're running this summer at Southfields Primary School in Coventry (where we made our glorious tiger mosaic, and filmed our first video diary). Today we worked with some local KS1 children who each made their very own magical story book starring their very own wizard or witch!

They made and bound their books, then designed houses, potions, spells, and monsters to fill it.

At the end they added words to their pictures to complete the story.