I need to make another thing cuz my thing broke. Sevi

We have come to love the Pine Tree Forest. It has become a place of play and research. Recently, the museum has challenged us to think of this space in a different way. Instead of games of chase, war and families we have shifted our focus.

"How can we make art in this space?"

"How can we transform the materials found in this space?"

"How can we think about line and design?"​​

I used what’s around me! One time I made a little house for a mouse with sticks.  CHESTER

I make a fairy house with only what’s around me in my backyard.  BIRDIE

Once I was hiding outside and there was a little corner and someone left a little box and I put leaves in it and dirt and it rained and it turned to real soup!  JANE

TO EXPLORE THESE QUESTIONS WE HAVE…

LOOKED AT THE WORKS OF ANDY GOLDSWORTHY. 

I’m looking for these long, large pine cones.  Birdie

I used the crack to make mud.  The mud is the sticky stuff.  Jane

We couldn’t organize them.  The wind keeps carrying them away!  Chester

I just sort of burrowed it in the ground.  Birdie

I’m making a sculpture.  I thought others would want to join.  We’re tracing the cracks of the rock.  Graeme

WE HAVE… 

BROUGHT THE FOREST INTO THE CLASSROOM.

With Clay…

I’m adding a leaf.  Sevi

I want the worm to go here to here to here to here!  Ray

Now I’m going to make a nest and some eggs.  Lyla

We’re trying to cover this.  Sevi

Brown (bark).  And it would feel funny and it would have bumps on it.  Charlotte 

I’m making mine smooth.  Sevi

We can make different bark.  Charlotte

This is really good bark we’re making.  Lyla

With Sand…

Actually it’s called a spiral.  Graeme

I’m going to call it Mountain Design. Graeme

Mine is Cage of Knife.  Chester

I’m making mine smooth.  Arya

Mine is kind of smooth.  Birdie