Cardboard Tubes and Hacksaws

This week, the teams worked with Alice Andrea Ewing, to create trophies to celebrate everything they have discovered about their local heritage—and each other–over the last 10 weeks.

It was hacksaw skills and tubes of glue to the fore at Beech House, where residents set to, sawing up large cardboard tubes and then gluing them to smaller card bases.

Tape was applied to the edges, to give a nice smooth finish, and then the tubes were assembled, to produce trophies.

Whilst chatting about the trophies, we learned that Beech House is taking part in a parade in Halesworth later this summer, to mark the Olympic Games. It turns out that they need to make an Olympic Torch … well, we were happy to offer to help, and have arranged to go back and do an extra Extra Time session, hacksaws, glue and cardboard tubes in hand.

A quick spray with gold paint, and the cardboard tube trophies are ready for the next stage, courtesy of the Super Sewter Dudes.

Over the past weeks, the children have created such a lot of lovely artwork, from booklets with Dean (16th May), dancing football drawings (25th April) and, of course, their worksheets from visiting the Museum (6th June).

Copies of these unique pieces provided a wealth of ideas and images with which to decorate the trophies. The children even transformed a selection of cardboard boxes from the neighbouring garage into a collection of podiums, using just their imagination and about 15 miles of sticky tape.

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