This is a project i worked on while working at The Parade Company in Detroit MI for a summer camp. Creating a float for the Hamtramack parade. Each week a new group of kids would work on the float ages 4-13. Learning to to draw, paint, imagine and most importantly patiently work together in the several steps it took to create a finshed float.
Original sketch of my idea for the float.
Veiw of the float with the flowers all painted
Used egg cartons cut into strips for the ocotopus tenticles.
Look at the Sharks! They were painted by a six year old!
The kids covered a beach ball with paper mache for the sun
We painted canvas to fill the space of the doorways
Chicken wire was used to hold up the paper mache flowers
