Edible Art 2014

The focus for this years Edible Art Parade was 'Going Global' which could not have been better for Room 3. Lydia had come back from her wonderful trip to South Africa with stories of her visit to Kruger National Park and the plight of  South African animals. She explained to us all about poaching and the effect it was having on some of these animals.
Anti-Poaching became our theme and from there the children worked cooperatively in groups to choose from one of the ten most endangered animals in South Africa. Once chosen it was all about planning, collecting and then creating the animal out of recycled 'stuff' that was a food related item. Not an easy task, but  they came up trumps.
Seeing them spending their whole lunchtime gluing on little bread bag ties and corn kernals along with other kids from other rooms, who just happened to join in, was superb. It really was cooperative learning at its best.
Check out their creations...real Green hat creativity!!

Black Rhino

African Elephant

Cheetah

Ethiopian Wolf

African Lion
 

Aren't they awesome? And in case you haven't heard all 5 costumes went through to the finals in the Junior grade. I was in Wellington at my graduation and when I got that news, I hightailed it home to be at the evening show where they were 'walking' the cat walk. Talk about exciting!!
The result was our Ethiopian Wolf, modelled by Sophia took 2nd place and our African Elephant, modelled by Lydia was 1st. I think our message of Anti-Poaching was just too important to overlook.
Well done everybody, as it really was a TEAM effort.
The job now is to think how we will use the $250 prize money!!