Sunken Ship--Under the Water (part 8)

This is our inspiration for the ship.  It is a window display from the store Anthropologie.  You should check out their fabulous displays for yourself.  I promise the entire reveal for this big project is coming in a few days.  We already have two panels up.  Our class is working on that third panel this week.  One of my co-workers who works with the older group wants to contribute an octopus. Our display is not massive like the above photo, but it is still impressive.  Kudos to these kinder and first graders (with a little help from our older kids).

You can tell by the pictures that it was not an easy task cutting the cardboard.  And I must confess, we did not have the sharpest scissors.

This is my future engineer.  I loved that Siena had that I'm going to cut this attitude.

Once cut, the "boards" are ready for paint.

The cardboard got only one coat of paint.

The boards are laid out to dry overnight.

We have begun to assemble the pieces with brads, making holes with the small Exacto knife.

Here's our engineer again. The little one was determined that she was going to complete as much of this sunken ship as possible.

One of our boys was just as determined to figure out where to place the hole in the ship.

Here is the kids' ship.  I know it leaves something to be desire; but it will undergo a final transformation because of needing to be mounted on the wall. We have to appreciate all the effort put in by the kids. Don't despair.  The end is in sight!

Supplies:
1. tall cardboard box
2. scissors
3. paint
4. paint brushes
5. paper bowls for paint
6. medium-sized brads
7. small Exacto knife
8. newspaper

Directions:
1. divide cardboard into pieces with pencil
2. with scissors, cut out the pieces
3. lay out newspaper
4. pour out paint into paper bowls
5. paint ship (we chose white; pick color that you want)
6. let pieces dry
7. arrange pieces into shape of ship ( I know, it doesn't look like much right now)
8. with Exacto knife, punch holes and connect pieces with long - medium brads

Duration:
This took three days.  The cardboard was hard to cut for these little ones; yet they persevered. That took one day.  Then there was drying time for the pieces. My partner monitored the kids with the Exacto knife and helped find the holes for the brads (cardboard is pretty thick) on the third day.