Welcome to the Boot Up! Project

Welcome to Boot Up! Outdoor Learning with Falmouth Forest School

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Spectacular Seating


At the beginning of term we went to the school to introduce the project to the young people







and some just got stuck in....



On the first visit to Boot Up! they revisited their paper chairs and looked at designs


They were given lots of resources to experiment with ....
The brief was to make some funky seating to use outdoors around the fire pit using sustainable and recycled materials

Designing patterns inspired by the Boot Up! Garden to use on the furniture


After a forage into the woods to gather branches for whittling and shaping the chair legs we set to carving out our shapes for printing the designs




after a trip to the scrap store we came back with lots of brilliant resources including some plastic tubes that we can use for the arms and backs


Some more designs incorporating the plastic tubes
Stenciling the designs onto the chairs


Using the tools at the Design Centre we cut the tubes in half and sprayed them with plasticote paint


Such beautiful chairs - what an AMAZING project Well done everyone! ands Thank YOU Emma

Friday 3 February 2012

woodwork workshops

Learning loads of new woodwork techniques


Learning to chisel

I love my pine cone....

Making a hole for the mallet handle with an auger....

Boot Up Booty Boxes


The mission was to make some individual wooden boxes for everyone to keep our woodwork projects in. Lots of funky ideas were designed on paper then to get to work....


Styling the boxes


Designing and decorating the hinges

Individual designs done with a flame torch