Art Enrichment Project
Members of FOJG met in the park in the summer 2010 and we
discussed what we enjoyed in our childhood and what we felt the
community may like added to the park.
From this meeting we formulated several ideas and have put
together a project proposal that we are currently consulting the
community to receive feedback and collate ideas.
The additions we would like to add are:
- 'Brass' rubbing plates. We are proposing locating a series of
plates around the park for children of all ages to find and use to
make pictures with. Parents can then bring paper and crayons
to the park and encourage children to make rubbings from the plates
but also to make rubbings from other surfaces in the park. We
are hoping to involve a group of youths with the design and
production of the plates.
- Community Mosaic Mural. The mural will be made out of
swimming pool tiles and we are proposing a community group design
and makes the mural.
- Wooden carvings and sculptures. We propose carving th
bridges in the park into native animals and adding a game spinner
instructing children to hop like a rabbit to rabbit bridge
e.t.c. We would also like to add some wooden bugs crawling
out of the beds and flying sculptures as well as a wooden hopping
frog game to a wall of the park.
- Archaeology in the park. We would like to bury a dinosaur
skeleton into the sand in the main sandpit for everyone to
excavate.
- Music and Shade. We would like to add shade canopies over
the small sand pit and in a part of the large sand pit. We
would also like to add a wooden rain maker.