During term 3 in the Inquirers Syndicate we studied Commonwealth countries. When then used key words from these countries in our story writing. A part of these stories then came to life in our Wearable art designs that we have produced for a production at the end of the term
Here is an example.....
Lantern Chaos
Created By Ellie and Rose
A dragon with striking red scales from his devilish head to his fiery tail sulked on his perch after ruining everything. He humiliated himself at new year celebrations. Instead of getting some dinner, he crashed through lanterns and got tangled.
Fire of the Dragon
Long ago there was a powerful, avaricious dragon. He lived on the very tip of a colossal mountain overlooking a small village. He had terrifying claws that were as sharp as one hundred knives, and wings as big as a house. He had striking red scales right from his devilish head to his spiked tail. Every day he would make a meal out of some of the villagers. He led an easy life and was very selfish and never helped anyone or anything.
One late night, in the chinese new year, the very same dragon stared hungrily at all the celebrations of people from his perch. They would make a mouthwatering meal, he thought. The only obstacle preventing him from getting his food was the fireworks. How they petrified the dragon, they were so loud. Boom! Crack! They were like huge stars exploding in front of your eyes. But the dragons hunger and covet overpowered his fear and he swooped down from his resting place to the celebrations…
The dragon looked around him. To his left he saw a deserted noodle canteen with colourful lanterns hanging from the top of the tent and the beautiful aroma of hot noodles. To his right he saw yet more deserted stalls; fruits, vegetables, ornaments, all the type of marketplace stalls. But where were all the humans? They must be watching the fireworks, thought the dragon. He hid himself behind the noodle canteen and waited.
After about ten minutes a crowd of people rushed back from the fireworks, just as eager to get dinner as the dragon was. There was beginning to be a long line. The dragon sighed with happiness. This was going to be fun, he thought.
Much to the crowd’s horror, the dragon suddenly leaped out of his hiding place and snarled. The dragon opened his mouth and lunged towards the meandering line of people queuing for noodles. But, instead of gulping up a person, he swallowed a lantern instead. The dragon gave an almighty roar of horror, and to his disbelief, fire streamed out of his mouth, scorching his throat and his tongue. He rushed forward and crashed into the big bowl of noodles getting caught up in more lanterns at the same time. Dragon beat his wings furiously crashing through the top of the stall.
That dragon never showed his face again, unless he was out getting food, he was scared of the humiliation he would face. He had ruined the whole race of dragons forever. Now, dragons would never have a good meal that was not toasted, burnt, full of charcoal or smoked. The dragon taught everyone to not be greedy, or else.
Designing & Making
Designing
First, we made lots of rough sketches of our costume- there were about 5. We then processed them to get our final sketch labelled with all the stuff we needed.
We bought in stuff that we needed from home, used some of class things and Mrs Mckenzie brought some as well.
Making
First, we made a dress out of bubble wrap, sewed it- that was hard- and spray painted it red and orange.
Secondly, we painted our mask.
While we were waited for it to dry, we painted eclipse mint cans to make a tail. There wasn't enough red paint so we just spray painted them red instead.
Once the mask was dry we hot glued a orange beanie onto it so it covered Ellie's hair.
After that, we cut out and put our wings together.
Next, I painted two horns- the cone part of an egg carton- and stuck it onto a headband.
Last of all, I spray painted the shoes and made sure they fitted Ellie.
Here are some photos of other Wearable art designs from Room 13
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