Footsteps nursery garden

Just some more photo`s of the xylophone that we have been making, that is to go into the Footsteps Sensory garden project.

Watch this space for more of the xylophone when it is installed!!!!

Hitting the right notes !!

Another suggested item for the nursery garden would be to have a xylophone made out of wood, (Sweet chesnut) so that the children could add some sort of music to the garden. So four members and a team leader went of to the hills, to our leaders house, where we, under the guidance of Tom, went about discussing and testing various pieces of wood for sound.

So after about 5 hours we have come up with :-

You can see tests still being done on the notes. So tomorrow it will be sanding and fixing to make it, resemble a xylophone. Then onto the next part of the project..........................

The project group

Nursery sensory garden Commission

Well, a well intended quiet friday turned out to be a busy and productive day. First part of the day was helping get more done to the `wooden man`. This involved cutting out a slot so that the top part of the wooden man can be attached............

Picture left shows:- Simon(artist in charge off this section of project) working on the slot for the top part to be attached.

Picture right :- You can just make out the top part of the wooden man. Also on the table , are two parts of a water Channel that has just had some mosaic put into it. This will become a water feature which the kids from the nursery can float wooden boats down it.

The second part of the day was to do some more tests
on clear perspex acrylic boards, which when heated up can be shaped into the design that is required of them. The idea behind these is to form flower borders, and with the panels being clear will give the children at the Nursery off what goes on/moves around/lives inside the soil .

Picture above :- is just one of many moasic`s that need to be done. I did this one, which will be turned into a stepping stone, its just awaiting to be set into concrete. The designs as you can see are copied from drawings that chidren from the nursery have done.

WATER PUMP

A commission for a sensory garden for a Nursery in oswestry, requires a water pump to be made so that it can be operated by the children of the nursery. The pump is to get water flowing down a channel approx 135mm wide, 75mm deep and approx 9m long. To which the children can float hand made wooden boats down. There is no means of electric available either!!

The question is how to build a water pump suitable?

the results after stripping..........

He is the results after a morning stripping the bark off.........

PIC BELOW,From Left - Andrew,Alfie,Simon and mike

PIC ABOVE, Back-Mike & Simon

Front- Sarah, Jo & Andrew

stripping tree

Just finished stripping the bark of part of a tree to make a wooden man for a sensory garden at a nursery in oswestry