My daughter Helen has a Pre-Primary class at a school near Rockingham. She, and her enthusiastic Teachers Aid, Lyndy, decided they should enhance the school yard with a Tree House and I was recruited to build the tree house and associated mushrooms and windows. The house is not as you might imagine. The plan is to make a door an entrance to the tree. Later will come small windows around the trunk of the tree and a small crop of mushrooms around the base of the tree.
It sounded like a good idea and I bought bits and pieces from our local hardware store to construct the tree house door and it did test my woodwork skills as my woodwork tools run to a jigsaw and hammer. I'm more of a metal bloke.
The doorway is to be fixed to the base of a tree in the school yard and further up the tree trunk will be windows with people ( things) looking out.
I am only the artisan in this project and I hope that what I have made will stir imagination in their pupils.
The door to the tree house
Mushroom mould. Modelling plaster to be added.
Lyndy, with yet to be painted mushrooms
Oops they turned out to be Toadstools.
With Helen our daughter
1 comment:
What a great idea. Stir their imagination. Have to make an owl and a few other birds and animals. The magic Far away tree,,,,,,,,,Marg
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