Unleash the Goo developments

On Monday the 9th of March we introduced the idea of creating a animation video for the Cadbury Creme Egg Competition. The children were shown some ideas from last year on 'You Tube' and then encouraged to share their ideas for a story line. The video can have any theme but needs to demonstrate a way of 'Unleashing the Goo' from a creme egg. The children spent most the week thinking about different ways to 'Unleash the Goo' and drew pictures to represent their ideas. As a number of the ideas were similar we narrowed the story lines down to a selection of around eight. We developed a voting form and the children voted for their most favourite story. The concept of a creme egg falling from a helicopter and melting on top of a volcano was the most popular by a long shot. We began to think about what we were going to use for a volcano and decided that we would probably need to make one of our own. We decided to use plaster of paris to create a volcano mould in the sandpit. After some exploration around the size it would need to be we dug a very large hole in the sandpit and moulded the plaster of paris into it. We had some initial difficulties with the plasters consistency but managed to get it just right and the top layers of the mould looking fantastic. We left the plaster to set over night in the sandpit and removed it the next morning. The interest from both adults and children has been fantastic and there was a lot of helpers as the volcano was dug out of the sandpit. The mould was actually very successful in the end and just needed some creative design to re layer the top half that hadn't quite set. We arranged a space for the volcano to be set up inside and have been working on set design and experimenting with the melting of a creme egg before we begin filming in the next couple of days. The project has had a huge amount of interest so far and we are all enjoying the various stages we have needed to work through as we develop of animation and competition entry. Keep an eye out on the white board for daily updates and the blog for the exciting pics.
Raelene