We Celebrate Gwen!

 Gwen

Committee Members:

Cian, Andie, Nathaniel, Naomi and Alexander

 

 

The interview:

T:	Let’s find out what we can make for Gwen!
Cian:	What is your favorite color?
Gwen:	Pink.
Andie:	Do you want a rainbow bunny?
Gwen:	Yes!  How did you know, Andie?
Andie:	I heard you this morning.
Naomi:	A unicorn?
Gwen:	I don’t think so.
Alexander:	A rainbow car?
Gwen:	No.
Nathaniel:	A rainbow?
Gwen:	Well, that would just be a picture!  I think I have an idea!  A hamster!
Naomi:	A kitty?
Gwen:	No.
Andie:	Do you want a rainbow hamster?
Gwen:	Yes!
T:	What is a hamster?
Cian:	It is a little baby that crawls around in a cage that is really cute.
Gwen:	My Aunt Jamie had a hamster.
Andie:	It is a little hamster that is little and tiny.
Nathaniel:	It is a little creature that looks like a mouse.  It is puffy and soft.
Gwen:	I think I just want a hamster that I can move around.  I want a cage with a wheel.

Sketches:

 

Nathaniel's Sketch

Naomi's Sketch

Cian's Sketch

Andie's Sketch

Alexander's Sketch

Work in progress:

 

Committee members discuss proportion as they make plans for the hamster.  They decide the hamster needs to be small enough to have room to move within the box.

Committee members order the bottles of sand so they ensure all colors of the rainbow are represented.

Nathaniel points out that hamsters are "soft," and committee members feel a piece of felt to see if it would be the right material.

Nathaniel uses care to paint the side of the box, making sure the paint doesn't drip onto the other colored sides.

Using their knowledge of the pattern of a rainbow, committee members assemble the paint cups as they begin the "rainbow side" of the box, ensuring the stripes match the correct order.

Alexander exercises his fine motor control to add his purple stripe to the bottom of the box.

Naomi uses a paint brush to make sure glue is covering the surface area of the base of the box.

After much deliberation and concern among the committee members over getting sticky hands,  Andie volunteers to be the one to press down the "shavings" into the glue.  

Committee members are concerned that the hamster looks "flat," and not like a stuffed animal as they had discussed.  They added a bead between the felt layers to help, but realized it was too "bumpy."

After suggesting sand as an insert, committee members test it out by squeezing sand in their hands.  They concluded that it was too hard.

After testing out the texture, they decide that the cotton stuffing was the perfect filling for the hamster, so he would be "squishy and soft."

Committee members vote on the size of eye for the hamster, deciding upon the smaller option.

Alexander uses his fine motor control to add a nose and smile to the hamster's face.

Cian uses his fine motor skills to cut through the difficult felt fabric for the hamster's legs.

Cian and Andie use their knowledge of letters as they match each letter of "Sugar Cookie Delight," the hamster's name.

Alexander and Nathaniel search through the Beautiful Stuff collection to find pieces that would represent a hamster wheel.  They found a ribbon spool that matched the round attribute, and Nathaniel suggested using a bird house as a shelter for the cage.

Gwen's Rainbow Hamster: Sugar Cookie Delight!