Woodworking #11 came up on us fast since, due to a schedule change, Woodworking #10 was only three weeks ago. Bruce decided to switch things up a bit for this class and instead of real woodworking the project was carving plaster. They still had a little woodworking to do when they made a base for their carving, but mostly it was all about the plaster. Bruce built a mold and poured 100 pounds of plaster, in batches of course, to make blocks for carving. It looked pretty cool.
As a sample before class, Bruce carved Rob’s nose — it came out pretty good!
Here are Bruce’s instructions with ideas of things to carve:
The kids ignored the idea of making the base first and got right to the carving.
After the projects were done (or at least after some of them were done) we broke out the slip n slide for some water play since it was a freakishly hot day. I have never seen this group line up in such an orderly manner!
Here’s Finn mid-air.
Jackson’s rock on! move.
Jack opted to go head first.
Olivia, Ashlyn and Terra all had a similar method.
The water was so cold, I can’t really believe they kept going back for another slide. But they did.
After a while, we took a break from water play to have dinner … in various places around the yard.
Here are some samples of finished products.
I don’t have a picture of Jack’s mountain but it was awesome. And his mom told me that he cleared off his dresser so it would have “maximum visibility.” Ha!
I was having a very fun time taking pictures at this class … and I took several hundred. I uploaded some of them here if you want to see more of our super fun evening.