Strained Fruit

Great first day of workshops with lovely Year 1 and Reception children from Studfall Infants. Abominable weather raining around the edges of the outdoor classroom but we managed to get eight ‘fruit’ and all the leaves made in pairs of children mixing year one and reception together so that they could help each other. Pumps were also painted in green patterns.

The problem with the weather didn’t help drying time so part two – putting it all together – will be tomorrow’s task. My big bag of colourful tights has been streamlined into neatly cut sections ready for choosing the covering sections. I will have to do the glue coating on all the pumps myself but I was expecting that.

One last logistics question is how to paint 60m of tubing green…..

Tomorrow will my first making session for the project. Despite several niggles I have prepared all the materials, and have some (now working – phew) samples of the ‘fruit’. Sound still needs finalising but this will be for me to do not the children. That will be a (hopefully nice) surpirse when they get to the installation site.

I really hope it all goes to plan and the children enjoy it. Only a little nervous…