The+Snow+Team

= The Snow Team =

Jenna, Pedro, Rashaeel
Concept Idea: Our Idea for this project was originally to make a Christmas tree, after thinking and trying to plan, we concluded that we would not have the proper resources for this. Our next choice was to create a Christmas ornament, even though it seemed fairly simple. We plan to make this mostly out of snow with food coloring.

Journal 1: For our sculpture we are making a Christmas ornament. The sculpture will be made from a big ball of snow. After we have made the ball we will add colour by getting a spray bottle and mixing water and food coloring and spraying it on. We will spray red and green stripes on the ornament. We will use yellow food coloring for the hook that would be on top. The water mixed with the food coloring will also help freeze the snow. The materials we will need are: snow water food coloring ( red, green, yellow) spray bottle

Journal 2: This week we started to create our sculpture, once we got outside we were disappointed to find out that the snow was not sticky and was not suitable for building. We came up with the idea to add water to the snow to make it stick better. After adding water we created a big ball of snow with less difficulty. After we created a big ball of snow we shaped it more into a ball shape. Our next step was to add food coloring which we would do the following week.

Journal 3: On Monday when we went to the courtyard we discovered that the snow over the weekend had covered our sculpture. We started the day off with making some adjustments to the shape of our ice sculpture and then we started to add food coloring. We added red and green stripes. After we added the stripes we brainstormed ideas of how to make a hook for the ornament, we came up with the idea to freeze a mixture of ice and water in a styrofoam cup. What we have left to do for the rest of the week is finish off the hook and spray it with yellow food coloring.

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I think that a Christmas ornament is definitely an awesome and different idea. The food coloring will really make it look cool - Kyley There are people who are doing trees. Maybe buddy up? Are you doing a single large ornament or a few little ones? I look forward to seeing your finished project. Sounds like it'll be colorful and interesting. ;) -Kit I like the idea, however I would like to know if you are doing a really big ornament or a normal sized one?- Ray I like the idea, but i'm curious, are your going to make it big or regular size? good luck - Kyrie Great idea :D Adding food coloring will definitely make it more exciting, and maybe make them all different sizes? (If you have time) --Ilaria Nice work so far. I bet it will look even better with lights in addition to the color. - Marcus Sounds like a cool, original idea -Carolyn This was a neat idea. Although it is a bit simple, I like the idea of giving it different color patterns because that will add another dimension to it. - Nik Carverhill Making an ornament is really creative, it lends to colour usage well. - Huyen Sounds like a wonderful idea! looks like it turned out great! - Megan Tollefson hope your ornament turn out okay conrad