This was a whole school Primary Project- There must have been between 200 and 300 tiny pairs of hands involved in its creation. I went into Assembly, made my pitch and asked the pupils to come up with possible final designs.
The finished piece was to measure 3x2 metres and be the first thing to hit your eyes on entering the school
I chose what I could from their work and painted the final design in acrylics onto mosaic webbing so it had become a sort of tile by numbers. We matched the colours of the tiles to the colours of the paint. As it was so big, using the mesh meant we could work on sections, easier all round....tiles are heavy!
I chose 1x1cm glass tesseral and at this stage we glued them on with a decent PVA decanted into syringes. Everyone got about a 20min session - enough for the smaller ones. The older ones could have taken more and been useful, but part of the rationale was for everyone to have played a part so everyone did.
THINGS TO BEAR IN MIND
There is a lot of sourcing/prep and finishing to a project like this. You have to complete it / fix it to its substructure/ grout it and arrange delivery if this has been done off site.
WOULD I DO IT AGAIN Yes BUT maybe work out a final piece that is in sections or insist on on site completion
Everyone was more than happy with the end result though!
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