We are slowly making progress on lil' t-bone. We didn't realise how time consuming and large this project really was! Passers by our classroom (which is based in the local community centre) stop by and ask us what we are doing. Kids exclaim "Look at the cow mummy" and we hear the occasional "Look there's a cow. No bull!" We are proud at the progress we are making. However, it is important to note that not everything has gone to plan. For example, we experimented with cracking medium to use on the back of our cow. We wanted the paint to crack like the dry land in rural Australia. We youtube and experimented on the fibre glass we had cut out of our cow... BUT when we actually did it on the cow it didn't work. So we had to come up with a plan B and in the end we drew the cracks on by hand. Additionally the inside of the cow still proves to be an issue. We will explain the purpose of the hole in the cow in a later blog. However, our urgent problem is how to cover it. We took a sheet of patchwork material and covered it with pledges. One aspect of the cow is our pledge to make different choices about the way we think about food, the way we deal with food waste, how we speak up about environmental issues, and support our farming community. Here are some of out pledges. But there was a problem... when we put it inside the cow, it was too dark and we couldn't read them. We experimented with lights which looked cool, but didn't really make a difference. It is funky, but not what we are going for. So... Plan C. Plan C included cow hide and a bucket with the pledges to be written on the bucket. Still not quite what we want. Back to the drawing board! Watch this space to see what Plan D looks like! (We have to figure it out ourselves first!
Here are some more shots of our team work and ongoing progress on the cow.... oh and us sitting down and sharing another delicious meal together.
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AuthorThe amazing students from The Lakes College, Youth Off The Streets Archives
September 2018
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