Wednesday 24th February

Today we finally started to create our props. Miss Hoad had all of our orders in their boxes on the table and, as the first job of the day we unpacked the boxes and ticked off what we had received on the order sheet. Unfortunately, the felt did not come in the order (as they did not have the colours we needed) so we'll have to wait until next week until we can begin to use it.

After unpacking everything we set up our tables where we would work and began to fix up some paper mache. We put half into each of the two buckets and set one on our table and the second bucket on the main table. We blew up balloons for the bases of our masks and began to shred newspaper to put in the paste. We began to layer our balloons with the newspaper and once we were happy with our base layers we hung them from the ceiling on string and put sheets of paper between each balloon, to stop them from sticking together.

Once the balloons were finished with I went with Ben to the Technology block in school to cut the large dowel stick into small 24cm sections. Once they were cut we went back to E1 and cut out cardboard stars to stick on our smaller dowel sticks. We cut them with a scalpel, from Graphics, and stapled each corner together so the dowel stick wouldn't move in between the two cardboard stars. Once it was stapled I coated the cardboard with paper mache until it was fully covered and strengthened. Unfortunately the dowel stick kept falling out of in between the cardboard so I had to cover it with super glue (twice!) and hold it down to make sure it stuck. Once it was glued down I took it to the girls' bathroom to dry it under the hand dryer. Once it was dry I took it back to the classroom to paint it with gold paint. Whilst the paint was still wet I put a lot of gold glitter all over it, to cover the hold star on the wand. Once I shook off the excess glitter and pored it back into the tub I took the wand over to the heater and placed it there to dry the paint (we'd cover it with watered-down PVA glue to make sure that the glitter would not fall on the floor when used by classes in the future.

That was all that we could make today so instead of beginning to make something I got on with my blog.