Stone Soup

Stone Soup was a completely new experience from normal lectures.  We were given the chance to create something out of almost nothing, starting only with the materials that each of us had brought to class.  At first, it was difficult to decide what we should try to create, but we decided as a group that we would try to make a tree.  From the experience, it was clear that everyone was able to build upon each others ideas as we were creating.

It was also interesting to see how even as the majority of our group was able to work easily together, one of us preferred to work alone.  Despite the preference to work alone, we were still able to tie our works together and create something whole.

An example of our building ideas off of one another was, one of us decided to create a person like figure using branches and paper, and another of us used the idea of people to cut small paper people. At the same time, one of us folded a paper crane, and decided to dangle it off the branches, leading us to the ideas of dangling the paper people and other items off the branches also.  The first paper crane also led to the creation of a second, much larger paper crane that helped tie the piece made by the majority of the group to the piece made by the person working alone.

In the end, I feel we were successful in creating a connected 'Stone Soup' out of nothing.