Thursday 25 February 2016

The Peacock Club at Starcross Primary School

The children in artist Melisssa Muldoon's Peacock Club produced another terrific amount of wonderful work today at Starcross Primary School

Because the tails are for outdoor display, the materials the children picked to make the eyes in the tails include bottletops, buttons, plastic sheets, CDs, pipe insulation and tinfoil. The pipe insulation had to be sawed up to make the circles.

The amazing tails are made from all sorts of rubbish too!


plastic milkbottle feathers on a broken leaf-rake

green plastic feathers attached to an old TV aerial

Wooden slats on a tyre base. blue scaffolding netting .

green corrugated plastic tail

The Peacocks' Tails Trail will start and finish at St Paul's Church on Saturday, April 23rd - St George's Day. There will be a stamp and an inkpad near each tail. The first 50 fully stamped-up cards will win a real peacock's feather.
The peacocks' next outing will be in Starcross Sportsfield, on Scarecrow Day - Saturday, June 18th. They will spend the summer on the Teignmouth Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape.

Can anyone please make another tail, (or three) ? Make them out of anything you like, and let us know before April 1st if you want your tail(s) to be included on the St George's Day trail around Starcross. We have a trophy for the best tail. 

We're using peacock's tails to signpost our history trail, in memory of our Victorian adventurer and inventor, Captain George Peacock. Search this website to discover all about him. There's an easy way to do this. Instead of typing Captain George Peacock into the SEARCH box, simply look in the LABELS  underneath this post, and click on Captain George Peacock.
Our club badge depicts his iconic yacht, The Swan of the Exe.



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