Instant Sculpture!

Before I moved to the city of Toronto for school I was never the type of girl who would get all dressed up in a short dress and heels and go out with my friends; I guess this was because I lived/live in a really small town and there was/is still nothing to do there. Growing up with an older brother who played outdoors almost every single day influenced me to tag along in a pair of sneakers and shoot some hoops. Although I LOVE to get dressed up now and party it up, running around in a pair of sneakers playing basketball and street hockey is still something I do whenever I have the opportunity. I guess behind the hidden fashion wall of glammer and sass will always be a muddy kind of girl who's not afraid to get dirt on her shoes. I am a star of sport at heart.

To sculpt, is to take things whether they are personal items or store bought products, and bring them together to create something new and different. I wouldn't necessarily think of sculpting with shoes to be an activity for young children, but now that I think of it, it would be a fun thing to do when in circle time. Everyone could take their shoes and pile them up in the middle of the circle. The teacher could then ask the children what they believe sculpting really means and what they could make out of this huge pile of shoes. If the teacher wanted to expand on sculpting, she could introduce clay to the children (if little, use play dough) and let their imaginations run wild to create different objects with the clay, or play dough.

If you're wondering why I have two pairs of Puma shoes, well, that's another story, preferrably one I wouldn't like to tell.