Meet up today!

We've all had a meet up to day to have a talk about everything because we've been emailed asking about the aquarium and how we plan to build it. 

PLAN A - Jessie has a big box at home that came with her bike when she bought it so we were thinking we could use that to cut out and paint. But we're going to wait for her to send us a photo so we can get an idea of the scale. 

PLAN B - Use ply wood and laser cut the aquarium. 

PLAN C - We would find a bigger box and use wire and pegs the clip things up and we can paint the box and add other elements like seaweed for example. 

We have written a list of everything that we need to buy and do within the next week. We have split off into two groups - me and Sophie are doing the task of sorting out the worksheets and making the sticker sheets with the eyes on. And then Jessie and Orlaith are going on the YPO website and buying items online.

SCAN                                 FINAL 

We've had a talk about the worksheets as we've had feedback saying that they will print the worksheets  - which is great, but now they need to be A4 sized rather than A3 that we planned so theres not really going to be the room for the prompts that we wanted to have on the sheets. We had a think about it and I suggested that we have the prompts in bubbles around our space, just stuck up and around to help prompt some inspiration. So now this allows there to be more room on the sheets for drawing and opens up a lot more space - also will make our table space look more interesting! 

They also suggested to us that our theme should not just be sea creatures but should be more open to a whole under the sea world so that the children can make whatever it is that they like! For instance, they can make cars underwater and they're own cities or whatever they can imagine! 

Taking that on board we have had the idea of using a double sided sheet - one side being the sea creature that they can draw and then the other side will be the under water world that they can create. 

I have designed the worksheet that will have the under water world. I just re worked onto the old worksheet that I had made as we all agreed that it worked the best for displaying the under water world rather than the others as the other work sheets were more like fish tank designs. 

                  

Sophie is going to make the other side of the sheet that will be for making the sea creature. She's done some really nice text so we will use the same font for my side of the sheet too. Also, they want us to incorporate their logo onto the sheets so need to work on fitting that into it next.