Stone Soup

Image based off group project

On Tuesday, October 5 of 2010, I went outside with my group to create “Stone Soup.” The reason it’s called this is because of an old folklore that goes by the title Stone Soup. This story tells of how three soldiers and the villagers all chipped in a little food and created a party that was enjoyed by the entire village. What we did was similar because we all gathered some materials and created art that was enjoyed by all of us.

I don’t have a picture of it, but I used Paint (computer program) to create a general view of the art we created. Using a pole and tree that was already there, we wrapped red and pink ribbons around to create something like a web. The in the middle, we hung a white Styrofoam, which we had shaped into a bow tie. And on the bow tie, we put on decorations using paper, such as cutting circular shapes and rolling paper to create cylindrical shapes. From the ribbons, we also hung small white bow ties made from white ribbons, and also hung a plate with holes, on the tree and the pole. On one of the plates, we taped an origami crane. And on the pole, we hung a strap of tape with leaves of the nature. Then on the bottom, we tied to the pole and tree a blue fabric with fishes on it, cut from bottom to the middle so that the bottom would sort of move back and forth when the wind blew on it.

By using the creative process of thinking, looking, and doing, everyone is able to create something called art. Art can be made from any materials, and so one can construct artwork from scrap materials just like the villagers and soldiers did by each providing a little food to create their “stone soup.”