Stone Soup

The stone soup experience not only allows us to produce an art piece, it’s also a chance learning how to work with others as a team. Ingredients of our stone soup are mainly paper boxes, newspaper/magazines, strings and the lantern shaped decoration from our mentor. When we first arrived the place, it felt kind of weird as we don’t know each other very well and everyone was quiet. Then we took out materials that we have bought and Noelle, the mentor, asked us to plan ahead or maybe sketch out any ideas. Yet, it’s kind of hard to think of any ideas just by seeing what materials we have. Therefore we just started right away by making something out or maybe putting things together. We used the lantern shaped thing as a head and hanged it on to the tree, we then used another lantern combined it with soft drink cans and put it along the head as a body. As there’s a paper box, we hanged it along and there’re words “tips are welcome” on it. There’re also some extra decoration of cut color papers that put along the string that tied up the main subject, so the strings look better and sort of tie together with the main subject than just being a string. The stone soup seems to be quite satisfied for everybody in the team and it brought a memorable experience for my first time doing art work outdoor with a group of people.