Mystery Production Lines

This week, we were joined by Ellie who started by putting the children into a production line, with each child being a different ‘department’. She showed the head of ‘design’ a photo of a piece manufactured at Garretts, who described the piece to the ‘drawing’ office.

The finished drawing was passed on to the fabrication team who, using cardboard and tape, made a model of the drawing.

The final part of the process was the ‘finishing’ department—the child at the end of the line who used silver foil and coloured pens to embellish the piece.

The whole process was done in (almost) silence; there were no hints or tips about what the original article looked like, so it was truly remarkable just how similar the models were.

We showed the team the lovely shield Ellie had come across when she visited the Museum. The children looked at the old photographs again, and selected one individual.

And then it was clay time. Each child had a slab of air-drying clay which they shaped and fashioned into a small disc bearing the image of their chosen football character.

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