Found on the Ground

Thóg na daltaí bruscar isteach ó baile. Labhraíomar faoi cad le déanamh. Theastaigh uathu crann a dhéanamh ar dtús le duilleoga agus le "vines". Ansin theastaigh uathu luascán a chrochadh ón gcrann agus teacha chuir sa chrann. Chuir siad féar os comhar an chrainn agus ansin páirc spraoi ar an bhféar le caisleán. D'úsáid siad cártchlár, plaisteach, Fáinní ón gcuirtín folctha, barr cupán caife, ceangaltáin ó na bricí móna. Bhí samhlaíocht na bpáistí soiléir agus iad ag obair ag teacht suas le smaointe. Rinne gach rang cuid den obair. Níl ach 34 sa scoil.

This bee is made of all recycled materials. The base of his body is made from egg cartons and old free newspapers and magazines. His body is littered with old screws and other hardware material and bottle tops.

The lower stripes are painted old latex gloves. The other stripes above the head and under the wing are made from old onion & orange mesh, glass shards, wire from old electronics, and rope found on a litter pick on the beach.

The flower was first painted on, and then each petal was individually cut out of an old milk carton and stuck down. The pollen of the flower (center) is scattered with old wrappers, straws, glass bottles, beads, buttons, and screws.

The four legs were first made with the same mixture as the body. They were then covered by broken rope from my scouts and the beach. Yellow glass and beads were added to look like collected pollen.

The bee's head is made from the same mix as the body. There is an independent eye, which I filled with glass I collected from different bottles and covered by discarded mesh, the same as the wing. His antennas are old cables from a radio.

The outside of the bee's wing is made out of discarded Christmas decorations, and the lower wing is made from wire from a fence. The mesh is from an old extractor fan. The veins are intertwined with twist ties and electrical wires.

The honeycomb hexagons are made from crushed up jam jars to create a shiny appearance.

At the beginning we wanted a sculpture that would mean the beauties of the Earth planet, but then we thought that it would be more "realistic" if we would also do the ugly and bad part of the Earth. This project means the beauty that the Earth is but because of climate change and the pollution (made by the humans) our planet, where we live, is killed by ourselves. The baby inside means that because of climate change and the pollution the news generations are going to live on a dirty planet.

Ingredients;
We used pieces of plastic that we found on the beach, we also used acrylic paint, newspaper, PVC glue, and also our love and our desire to transmit this meaning

The base shape of the shark is made from an old cardboard box we found in our school, layered with papier maché of old newspapers also from our school. The teeth of the shark are made from old egg cartons and a few from old cardboard. inside the mouth is rubbish from our homes, school and our local beaches. We wanted to collect from the beach because we were making shark and wanted it to be all about saving the seas and to show how much litter is damaging sea life. To try and show this the best we could, we made fish out of old egg cartons, which otherwise would have gone in the bin. These fish are mixed in with the rubbish in the sharks mouth to show that there's so much rubbish in the seas that sea life, such as sharks are eating rubbish and possibly even getting confused between what they can eat and what they can't. Overall, we wanted this piece to represent how big of a problem pollution in the seas is.

Our sculpture is made from plastics, rubbish, cardboard, wire and other waste packaging- all of which was found on the ground, in our school, on our local beach and areas we frequent. We are all keen surfers and love the beach and this is why we chose the wave and the surfboard. We along with our EPAS class plan to use this sculpture to raise awareness around the school about Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and organise a big clean up on Banna Beach. Please check out our video's on Instagram as we explain why and how we made it.