Stone Soup

The children’s folk story Stone Soup encourages one to contribute one’s materials to a group, share, and create something for everyone to be a part of and to enjoy. In last week’s Stone Soup activity, my group brought assorted materials including a cotton body suit, blue and green yarn, a Frisbee, construction paper, a board game, superman cape, pipe cleaners, tape, scissors, and a few other materials. With the mix of eclectic materials brought by each of the members of my group, we quickly thought of many ideas and began to construct our work of art together. Everyone had ideas to contribute and everyone had a task to work on. After only a few short minutes, our group whisked together a flying puppeteer with hair made of yarn and twigs connected to a puppet below on the ground.

Working on art when one is alone can be very fulfilling, but working on art together in a group of people can lead to great creations that can only be thought of with many people imputing ideas. Working together is a skill that is very useful in the professional world and necessary in design. In the creation of films, stone soup is the predominant mode of creation. Collaboration leads to the most creative results.

Part of our group's creation:

(Photo by Clarice Kwok)