Rocket Adventures with Miss Moat

For the art challenge this week, we were meant to make origami rockets! I was pretty excited because I love making origami, especially paper cranes. When I was younger I was able to fold a paper crane with my eyes close!

This is the paper crane I made at the beginning of the week. It is the first paper crane I have made since 2015. The paper was very thick and it made it hard to fold. 

To make my paper rocket, I first got a piece of A4 paper, and then had to turn it into a square. I followed a youtube video and proceeded to make my rocket. It was challenging as the video went very quickly. To overcome this problem, I had to keep pausing and rewinding the video.

Finally I finished folding my rocket. I know my folds are not perfect, and the rocket is on a little bit of a lean, however I am proud that I was able to face the challenge and fold an origami rocket. 

The white paper looked a little plain, so I decided to colour it in. I used blue for the fuselage. I then coloured the fins with yellow and orange to make it look like flames. 

The rocket then went on an adventure. Read through the slides to see what happened!

Jono aka C3PO

Here is Jono's Robot!  Its life sized and he can wear it!  Jono loves building and creating things using his imagination.  He sees different things in every object! 

This Robot is made of boxes, wrapping paper, ribbon and rolls. We had fun putting it together! 

I wonder where he is now going to store it.... 😩

Introducing Pringles: The Flying Robot Chef

This weeks art challenge is to create a robot using recycled materials. This task was inspired by Martin Horspool, a Robot sculpturist who lives in Auckland. Martin pulls apart and repurposes old machines into super cool robots.

My creation, Pringles, is also a super cool robot.

To make my robot I first found a suitable item for the body, a Pringles tube. The bbq flavour made me think to make it a food-related robot. I then used scrap paper to make the arms, a tin for his head, and a paper towel for his face.

Once I had finished, I looked at my robot and thought it was missing something. Ah! Why not add a flying element to my robot? But how could I do that?

I started to look at different flying machines and thought that using propellers, like a helicopter, could help him fly. I found some plastic spoons and attached them to his head.

Perfect!

Now it was time to put Pringles to good use in the kitchen, so tonight I had him help me make dinner.

He was a great help in the kitchen. He opened up the tins, stirred, mashed and put it into the dish. Now it's in the oven. I can't wait to eat it!

I really enjoyed making my robot. I loved being able to give materials a second chance in life. All the items I used to make my robot were items found in my recycling bin.

The most challenging aspect of this task was to think of a robot design. I wasn't sure where to start with making him. I then remembered how Martin Horspool starts - he finds the body first, so that is what I did.

If I was to do this art challenge again, I would think about adding some colour to his face. Or I would look at creating some funky eyes for him.

Opening the tin of tomatoes

Mixing the mince

In the dish, ready for the oven

Mashing the pumpkin and potatoes

Idominus's Lunch

Owen to the rescue! Black and White by The Wibbles

This week our art challenge was to make a picture out of nature and create some thing interesting!  This is Owen (AKA Jono) Riding Idominus who has just caught his lunch!  this is a Black and White work to look like the olden days!

Idominus's Lunch By the Wibbles

We had a lot of fun with this task and enjoyed searching for things that would create the picture!  We chose leaves to fill the body because it is Autumn and there are a lot of leaves around at the moment!

I learnt that Andy Goldsworthy - who is the artist who works like this, was born in England and now lives in Scotland.  He never uses any man made tools to make his art - only his hands!  Wow.  Sometimes he photographs his art in different weather conditions to see the difference in them!

This picture is Owen being eaten the Idominus catching his next prey!  Idominus Rex is a carnivore and in the lego movie he eats hot dogs! The Mosasaurus eats Idominus in the end! 

What an exciting morning we have had!  Being chased by dinosaurs...  whew now I'm off for an afternoon nap!

Miss Moat's Weekly Art Challenge - Week 1

This week I set a challenge to learn more about Andy Goldsworthy and create a piece of art using the same materials that he uses. He is an English artist that only uses natural objects to create sculptures and other creations.

I completed my artwork on Wednesday afternoon. I started by wandering outside to collect different leaves that have fallen to the ground. I also found some stones and a stick.

I felt relaxed as I moved the leaves around to see what pictures I could create.

Quackers the Duck - on his lovely morning walk!
Artwork by Miss Moat

I first made a brown duck with a bright yellow sun.

When I was making this picture I was starting to get annoyed as the wind kept blowing the leaves away and I had to keep restarting the duck. The wind finally stopped and I was able to quickly put the picture together and take a photo.

Don't worry, be happy!
Artwork by Miss Moat

I then asked myself "what can I make so that I am happy again?"

I decided to create a sunflower picture. I love sunflowers since they remind me of happiness.

I really enjoyed participating in this challenge. The wind made it difficult but I felt successful as I have been able to create two different images.

I would now love to try to make a sculpture; some sort of tall tower made of sticks. But I wonder how that would work as I would only be able to use natural materials.