Club+Penguin

**Huyen, Carolyn, Ilaria**
Description of Fredrich the Penguin!:

Materials:
 * snow
 * ice
 * food colouring
 * sculpting tools-shovel, carving stick, brush, spray bottle, bucket
 * string of lights (given by teacher)

Dimensions:
 * Height - a bit less than a metre
 * Diameter - approximately 50 cm

Diagrams:



Project Concept: For our ice sculpture, we decided to create a penguin holding a candy cane. We will incorporate sound into our sculpture through a jingle bell attached to the penguin. Since we cannot use props, we can’t actually have our sculpture make noise, the jingle bell and beak of the penguin will represent sound. We incorporated light into our sculpture with the string of Christmas lights provided. Colour is represented by the coloured Christmas lights and the different colours of the penguin itself. We will create our penguin by creating two snowballs, and stacking a smaller one on top of a bigger one. We will carve arms and a tail into the large snowball, and place feet beneath it. We will add a beak and a hat to the smaller snowball.

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This week we brainstormed ideas. We came up with penguins, a gingerbread house, a Christmas tree, or represent a completely random holiday on the day of the evaluation. We had a hard time choosing a theme for our project. We also struggled with how to represent sound without using a prop. ======

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We decided to sculpt a penguin this week. We chose to make it because it is cute, and would not be overly complicated. The penguin will be blue and white, and have a candy cane by its side. There will be a little hat on its head also. It also fits with the ‘Holiday at Walter Murray’ theme, as penguins with candy canes represent cold-ness and winter (in our opinion). To start with, we piled snow and shaped it into a spherical lump. We also added two little balls of snow at the front for its flippers. Since the snow was really grainy that day, we were not able to do much else. Next week we will put together the rest of the parts and dye it with food colouring. ======

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During the last week of the project, we actually made the sculpture. At first we didn't know how we would make the penguin, but then we decided to just make a pile of snow and decided what to do with it after. We carved the body of the pengiun out of the snow pile, and made the head the same way. Since we had to take the head off the ground and put it onto the body, we were worried that the head would fall apart, but it held. After carving out the details, we sprayed the penguin with food coloring to add the color, and stuck a candycane in it. It looked lovely. ======


 * The Building Process Pictures:**

Our lovely piles of snow-

Starting to actually look like a penguin now!

Final Product-- (Thank you Stefan, for building your sculpture right in front of ours)

Comments from peers: I love the idea of a penguin, sounds very cute! Sounds like you have everything under control! - Megan Tollefson I think that a penguin is a really good idea, I like the candy cane idea - Kyley The idea sounds cute ! Its a good idea ! - Jenna Harkness What kind of hat? It should be a top hat. If you can do that. Also, if you noticed the people doing the coke polar bear, you could give your penguin a refreshing bottle of coke, than you guys can be themed! I saw you working on your project, and it look awesome so far. :D -Kit To be honest with you, I was skeptical at first, but this turned out great! It is nicely colored, and is really cute! - Nik Carverhill It look very cute and seems like it might work out well. Good Luck. -Ray This is very fitting for the winter theme plus everyone loves penguins. How are you making the eyes? Anyway, I can't wait to see how Fredrich turns out. -Marcus Lee Great idea! - Pedro This is a great idea, good luck!! - Kyrie Patterson I love how the color is very natural and spread out and i like your design- Zoma great job of coloring conrad