This week we made fantastic light designs. We challenged the kids to do this using only foil, pipe cleaners and a hand held torch or a string of fairy lights. By constraining the materials available, we forced them to explore the possibilities and limits of what you can do with foil -squish it, mould it, fold it, fan it, puncture it etc.
This cat alien has devilish red ears and waggling foil legs and is wound round with pumpkin-coloured fairy lights.
These ghost masks have internal lights shooting out of ghoulish eyes (and blood streams for the top light).
Some of our students made sculptures-moulded with foil-to project interesting shadows -this one's a witch -onto the wall.
Others were entranced by the reflective properties of foil and built a giant space age plane with tiny magical animals flying on the top of the fuselage.
This student made a series of horseshoe shaped ornaments, with candy cane like pipe cleaner stripes, this became a visually appealing garland.
This lantern box made good use of a coloured scaffolding and cast an interesting shadow.
In this team effort, our designers made a large flower with illuminated squirly stamens in the centre and a twining decorated vine. Nice job!
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