Forming & Shaping the Cobb for our Cobb House ModelOn a Tuesday backwards day, we mixed sand, straw, and clay together to make cobb. Then on Thursday, Adaline, Lillian, Pierce, and Zoe - friends who were really invested in working with the cobb - teamed up together, with Melanie and Elyse, to form and shape the material to make our Cobb house model. We work with the texture and shape of the current and existing cobb by rolling it out to flatten it for a floor and walls. Then, we began considering the overall shape of the Cobb house by attending to the details of it - the doors, the windows, and the slope of the front of the structure to the back. Gradually we worked, adding handfuls or even pinches of Cobb, little by little, to the rolled out floor of the structure. Until, at last, we unanimously decided we had finished the Cobb house model, and the result is a close replica to the original! How do we make a slab? Where do we start? "What if we smash all the clay together, cuz Pierce says, and then we all take turns to smash and then we can start piece of the... on the Cobb house by bending it way." -Adaline "Everyone is going to smoosh this!" -Caroline
"Look how flat it is!" -Adaline Next up will be Cobb House Model Part 3: Creating the Roof
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