Tuesday, September 16, 2014

collages and kicker!

Today the y1's (5/6 yr olds) started to create collage self-portraits. We stuck to using simple shapes. Think these will look quite effective when complete.


Latest automaton to leave the workbench is a prototype 'kicking' figure. It's a very rough creation just to test the mechanism. The squares on the cutting mat are 5cm just to give you an idea of scale.


It works...


...but I'm not happy with it. The mechanism is too fiddly to make and install and I've already worked out how to make it much simpler!


There's also no reason for the arms to be 'loose' as they don't really move. Am already thinking of two players tackling for the ball!

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