Making the owls

Why owls? 

Well after the success of the pom-pom sheep project last year in conjunction with Armley Mills, Leeds, many of the pupils kept asking me when were we going to have another pom-pom day? 

I also had a lot of natural coloured wool left over from the project kindly donated by the school community and Edward Hill @ Sons, Bradford and was thinking of another pom-pom animal project.

The owl is such an important symbol associated with Leeds:- it is on Leeds' Coat of Arms (as is a sheep) and you can see them all over the city in so many places, if you look for them, (see The Owl Trail). It simply had to be an owl. Then I wanted to make an owl in school colours as well, so they became two.

Here is a video of how it all went.

Introducing the second owl...

Here is the second owl we made from the pom-poms made on March 1st in our school pom-pom day.

This one has been made in school colours and is to be displayed in school.  The colours have been inspired by our school theme and match the pom-pom sheep we made last year.

This owl is going to remain in school on display for people to see.

Like the other owl, the artclub helped to papermache, paint it and stick the pom-poms on it, which you can see on the Art and Creativity blog http://artandcreativityrobinhood.blogspot.co.uk

We have added knitted material to provide a contrast to the texture of the pom-poms. You can see this on the wings and on the back.  Feathers were also added to the beak and tummy.

We hope you like our owls.  We have had fun making them.

The Robin Hood Owls - finished...

May I present to you the first of the Robin Hood Owls.  He is standing very proud waiting to greet people as they come into our school office.

 

He has been inspired by "Gazza", the hand-reared barn owl at Lotherton Hall.

All the children in school made a pom-pom on March 1st 2013 that has gone to make both owls (the other to follow).

The body is made from wire and paper mached over by the Artclub.  When this had dried, they painted the owl white.

The children in the Artclub then advised which pom-poms looked good next to eachother, taking colour and texture into consideration.

Shortly, I will put the making of the owls on to the blog so you can see how they have been made.