The atmosphere in Pioneers was wonderful as we explored new building materials, how to join them and make strong and stable structures.

Using dry willow, we made tripods joined with paper tape. One of the Pioneers recognised that this was a similar structure to the ancient Egyptian pyramids. Another Pioneer described this process as “very satisfying.” They worked together to make three frames before beginning the wonderful work of putting on the wet strength tissue paper to form a skin. We will add our collage tissue paper once it has all dried. The final shapes are fabulous.

We then moved on to building with a huge selection of cups and the collaboration and cooperation we a privilege to observe. They began setting out structures individually but then moved to all work together on one big building suggested to be a castle with doors and windows and the addition of carpet. We used the words hollow, stable, base, arch and structure.

The tidy up process was wonderful and all the resources were collected and sorted to explore further with the addition of flat paint mixing sticks.

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