Bird Installation
photo by Martine Burkel
The elementary school kids I teach made this awesome installation (with a little help, of course). They cut the two parts of the bird out of scrap fabric, sewed them using the classroom sewing machine (how cool is it that their classroom has a sewing machine?) and then stuffed and closed them off. We tried to make a mobile, as they were studying the work of Alexander Calder at the time, but the balancing was a nightmare so we dragged in a fallen branch and stuck it in a pot. We’ll take it apart at the end of the school year so each child can take home his or her own bird.
P.S. There’s another exit!
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