‘The Amazing Tube’, written the Brander Garden School’s grade 3 students during an artist residency.
For this class I brought in a box of empty toilet paper tubes and told the kids to come up with as many things to do with them as possible. Over the course of the two week artist residency I saw this class for 4 sessions (3 hours total), and we spent the rest of our time consolidating everyone’s ideas, developing the characters, and deciding what each page will look like.
My original idea for the ending was that the characters would go to a friends’ birthday, and get them an empty paper tube of their own. The students came up with this much cleaner ending.
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