Today we went to see two artists called Nicki and Helen! They were both very nice and gave us plenty of ideas and advice for our art exhibition! Helen let us borrow some of her equipment and she also gave us some of her spare old material. We showed her some of the recycled clocks that we'd made and she was very impressed!
Nicki showed us how to make paper mache animals using old newspaper and wire. They were all very good and it encouraged us to have a go at making some ourselves!

When we got back we decided to have a go at making a paper mache elephant! We made a basic elephant shape out of some old chicken wire and then we put a layer of old newspaper around it and secured it down with lots of tape. After that we made a paste using flour, water and salt. We then dipped strips of newspaper into the paste and covered the elephant with it! All we have to do now is wait for it to dry properly before we do the next layer!

This is the chicken wire sculpture of the elephant:

This is us putting on the newspaper layer:

This is us adding on the paste layer: