Finally displayed at Bell Prairie Elementary, art teacher Manabu Takahashi’s Creative Design III class has finished their children’s book inspired projects. Started near the end of February, the groups had two months to complete their given children’s book.
When the people in the class received their task, they had the fifth graders choose a specific part in each book that they wanted displayed. The groups split into whether they were doing a small diorama or a life-size display. They had to submit a material list and generate an info panel and meet the team to match with their groups correlating books.
“Chrysanthemum”
“Our biggest challenge was we took a long time to get Mr. Takahashi the materials list. we thought we were gonna get them. So the struggle was not getting the materials fast enough,” junior Olivia Barrett said.
“Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping”
“The biggest challenge was the time limit,” junior Aaron Carrasquillo said.
“Swift”
“Trying to bring it to life with the amount of time we had. We didn’t use our time appropriately and we had to struggle to put everything together at the end,” junior Jordan Wasleski said.
“Henry And The Kite Dragon”
“Deciding what materials we were going to use,” junior Luke Chwojko said.
“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”
“The amount of hand sewing was the hardest,” junior Jenna Bredfeldt said.
“Don’t Bring A Dragon To The Library”
“I think that building the structure of it and actually having a body. We struggled with figuring out how to attach the PVC pipes to the cardboard because it didn’t want to stick at all,” junior Willow Wooldridge said.
“Duck On A Tractor”
“Trying to make all the clay figures look the same as in the book,” junior Elliot Glidewell said.
“The Rainbow Fish”
“The paper mache process took the longest and was really time consuming,” junior Gwen Prendes said.
Dogzilla
“The amount of detail — you can see the city and in each room there are little mice and gaming setups or posters,” junior Ally Kamphefner said.
“Good Boy Fergus”
“Doing the dog and all the pieces of the fur,” junior Hailey Watson said.
“Wonder In The Woods”
“Making the tree come together because it’s really hard to make a tree out of cardboard,” junior Nia Fowler said.
