It all started when we got given a load of teddy bears from a parent who lives on Sceaux Gardens estate... There were also some old clothes in the bag and once Emily found these she decided she wanted to make a giant teddy mascot for the Shop of Possibilities.
They made the body by stuffing a top and trousers with Eeyore's old stuffing:
And then found a good head for the mascot in the form of an old Winnie the Pooh teddy bear, and proceeded to remove the head with surgical accuracy...
They fixed the head onto the body...
Then the mascot was complete!
Meanwhile, other children caught on to what was happening, and joined in with the action...
With perhaps slightly more sinister intentions...
The boys were quite precise in their choices. Arinze picked a ballerina teddy bear and slowly and carefully cut off all of the hair...
While Brahima tried to remove Winnie the Pooh's eyebrows!
Arinze relaxes into the process...
A creepy yet comical take on the idea from Patrick:
Then Brahima goes about giving another teddy a haircut while the others make use of the offcuts and stuffing:
Then it's only a matter of time before attention is turned to the original mascot himself...
The initial act of cutting open a teddy bear, or cutting off bits of hair seemed like a thrill, as it is something that you are not usually allowed to do. The children were excited by this, it felt a bit wrong and so they wanted to see how far they could push it, and so they worked fast. However with a lot of them it soon became about exploring a process, and repeating certain behaviors such as seeing how short you could cut the fur, or whether you could remove every strand of hair neatly to make the girl doll have a Mohican, by which time the pace had slowed down, the giggles were less cheeky and there was actually a lot of concentration going on.
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