The Iron Man - the best thing we made.
It all started a few months ago when we read a story called The Iron Man for the inspector. When we finished reading it she came up with a brilliant idea. The idea was to make the Iron Man. She declared that when she went to another school she saw The Iron Man. She suggested that we should make an Iron Man for the classroom.
So that day after she went we all discussed it. My teacher agreed that we could make the Iron Man if we brought in enough materials. Soon we got busy. After a few weeks bringing in boxes ,bottle-tops, screws, tinfoil, toilet roll holders and shiny paper. We eventually got to work. It was now approaching Christmas time.
The whole class was excited about it. The first thing that we did was to design how the Iron Man would look. Some of the class put there ideas on paper and drew sketches. All the designs looked good. When the designs were finished we had a pretty good idea how to make the Iron Man.
We started with a small box for his head. It was about the same size as a computer screen. We used a huge Tayto crisps box for the main part of his body. We used all the tinfoil to wrap up the boxes. While we were working he looked nothing like we expected him to be. He looked like a cat sitting down without his head on. We spent a long session arranging the boxes to make him look realistic. Some girls painted his body and we put screws on it.
When all the cardboard was used we took the tin foil holders and used the rolls as arms. For his hands we used blue rubber gloves. We put thumb tacks and screws on the palms of his hands a wedding ring on his finger.
His two legs were made from strips of cardboard painted a greyish/ black colour. We painted lots of different designs and stuck bottle tops on for his toes. My friend and I painted a box for his foot. We worked very hard on him.
We enjoyed putting the finishing touches on The Iron Man. We painted his eyes. The teeth were made out of egg cartons and screws. The final touch was his heart. One girl in the class brought in a fluffy red heart. We stuck it on one of the tin lids on his chest.
The project was fun and when we finished he looked really lovely. When the inspector came back to our class she said we did a brilliant job of The Iron Man.