George the Rhino

Last half term, we were very privileged to have two professional artists come to work with us. We spent lots of time before they came working on our paper rolling and folding skills. We learnt to roll magazine pages into very strong sticks that could be used for building:

Licy and Phillippa were great teachers. They were good fun and taught us lots of ways to work with paper. We started by making bridges and buildings using paper; here are some examples:

We worked together with Licy and Phillippa from Young Visions for 3 days to make our rhino. We began by making the feet and legs,

Then we added the skeleton of the body, before using a different technique to make the skin.

We made the head, horns, eyes and ears and attached those next.

We decided to leave a window in the skin, so that you can see inside the rhino to see how he was made. We added coils and spirals to decorate him.

We really enjoyed this project- it was messy and required lots of concentration and we all worked well as a team to complete it.

The class decided to call him George the Rhino. He will be the star of an exhibition in the Vibe Gallery at the end of June.

A huge thank you to Licy and Phillippa and thank you to everyone who donated magazines. We hope you agree that they were recycled in an exciting way!
Our rhino is made only of paper and the children made it all!