An interest in transport and thoughts of global ecology led the children at Greenfields Children's Centre in Southall, London, to make and launch their own air balloon.
The 'Our Earth' Balloon was made during an ambitious ten-week project, working with artists Rosie Potter and Kirstie Reid from Wimbledon College, University of the Arts, London. There was collaboration between the artists and the nursery community, supported by the staff team.
The artists took the threeand four-year-olds' fascination with modes of transport, from rolling and bouncing to floating and flying, as a starting point for the project. They began by exploring how things fly and actually manage to get off the ground. Children experimented with a wind machine and different light objects, such as crumpled tin foil, tissue paper and silk, to see how they moved in the air.
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