25.01.17 a golden, fragile and delicate treasure

In the studio, between layers of paper, card and wood, hundreds of fragile and delicate flowers are hidden and safe.

We think about other fragile, delicate and precious things: a leaf, diamonds and gold| purple glass, a fish tank and the cat| ice, paper, tvs and robot toys| a window, a car and trees| football cards, a picture Daisys Mum made her………and Darcys tooth……

Ms Cross hands each student a golden, fragile and delicate material to mind while on lunch break_ a cornflake in every hand goes outside for ten minutes. Only two return, one smaller than before and the other held very safe. The rest blew away, were snatched by an older sister, broke into tiny pieces, were eaten, got squeezed, squashed, and stepped upon.

We think about how we could have minded this tiny piece of treasure, safe places for delicate things……….in a box or a treasure chest, in a castle in a safe, in a pillow case, a t-shirt, bubble wrap or plastic, kitchen roll and cardboard, in a blanket, covered by a tissue, or cotton wool, in a drawer, a pocket, a bag, a basket, a tin box, a cup, a tin, a lid or a jar, buried under the soil, or inside a diary????

Everyone takes another cornflake and takes time to hide it in the classroom until we meet again, a map for every location is made just incase we have forgotten six days later. Like real treasure maps they are rolled up and Ms. Cross stores them away in another safe place. I try to find out where some are hidden, I ask Daisy and she tells me “its there beside side you” (on the tray under the whiteboard), how could I not have seen it……..one of my favourite moments we have had. Daisy doesn’t feel that I am in another place and neither do I today. I feel very connected with the energy in the classroom and excited by the conversations we have had. I leave the classroom and my studio thinking about carefulness and aware of the qualities of materials around me.

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