Emerald City- The Wizard of Oz

Here, at last are the pictures of Emerald City and other bits I made for the Year Six production of The Wizard of Oz.


This top one is how it all began. Just a huge piece of cardboard from a skip, which I painted green.

The signs are made from pieces of wood, made like an upside down T and then cardboard stuck on top and painted.

This you can't see so well, but it's obviously the yellow brick road and in front was a poppy garden that had to be made so the children could lie behind it. I actually used kebab boxes (unused) which I attached the poppies to (all 650, that I sat making for a lot of evenings). I covered them in green card, cut at the top to look like grass (but you can't see this in the picture) and then attached green cloth to the bottom as the children had to hold it up. It was then stuck onto four, one metre rules. Phew!!!

This is the last picture of Emerald City that I got I'm afraid. All of it is made from cardboard, which has then been painted or covered with green/black and then staggered to give a more 3d effect.

Now I'm no artist I know, but I think it turned out ok for the children. They made me a lovely big card to say thank you which I had to go up and collect on the last night and of course tripped over somebodys crutches (can only happen to me).

Thanks for looking.

Tracy