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Kieran and Wynn

To make the trouser bowls that we sold at the Christmas fair you need to get newspaper, PVA glue,polystyrene cups,a plastic flower pot,sticky tape, balloons and paint brushes thick and thin.

Step 1 Blow up balloon and try to make the glue solution and put balloon on the pot.

Step 2 Cover balloon in the glue that you have made.

Step 3 Begin with adding strips of newspaper and after one layer of newspaper has been added, add more glue on the newspaper until 5 layers of newspaper has been added.

Step 4 After the balloon has dried for approximately 36 hours pop the balloon from the end where the pot was.

Step 5 Cut around the end where you have popped to be more smooth.

Step 6 Add 2 polystyrene cups under the bowl stick news paper on cups do 4 layers on legs.

Step 7  To add an extra affect add a folded piece of paper to make a waistband along with the ”ankles” .

Step 8 Wait for it to dry overnight.

Step 9 Paint the entire bowl with acrylic paint.

Step 10 Wait for it to dry it may take a while.

Step 11 Paint on your design .

Step 12 Wait for paint to dry.

Step 13 Varnish your masterpiece by painting on your glue on every painted section.

Step 14 Add on more detail with pens .

Enjoy your storage space!

By Kirsty and Colm

My friends and I made a stall at the Ballater School Christmas Fair to raise money for guide dogs. I came up with the idea because I saw a letter in the mail that had a guide dog puppy looking hungry. It said on the letter that £3.oo can feed a guide dog puppy for a week. Then I went to school and thought that my friends could help me  and they were really excited about the idea. That following Friday a guide dog puppy came to school and we took it round the classes. The puppy’s name was Lennox and it’s owner told us that from the moment it is trained to when it retires it costs £50,000. Click here to find out more!

By Cato

At the fair we had games, Guess the Name of the Dog? the dog was called Pebbles and How Many Dog Bones in the Jar? We sold dog homemade treats and toys , soft toy dogs, Christmas cards rubber, pencil,highlighters  and other stuff. Our group name was “Guide Paws”.

by Kate

We made trouser bowls for Ballater Christmas  Fair.They were made out of paper mache .Paper mache is newspaper and PVA glue.We, p6/7, made these trouser bowls, they took us 10  hours of our life to make.We used newspaper , PVA glue , balloons ,paint brushes , metallic pens , acrylic paint , plant pots , polystyrene cups,scissors and sellotape. We made 48 of them.they were made by us putting newspaper on an a balloon with glue on it and letting it dry for 36 hours and once it had dried we moulded the polystyrene cups and stuck them on the bowl.Then we did what we did to the bowl and let it dry.After we let it dry, we painted it with the acrylic paint and let that dry too. When it dried we titivated it with the metallic pens and then put a layer of PVA glue on it to shine it up. We were proud of our products. By Ryszard and Kieran.

We were customers at Ballater School Christmas Fair. We bought  dog treats ,dog toys ,Trouser bowls and raffle .

We liked the Shorties stall and the necklace stall . At Ballater school Christmas fair there were lots of different stalls

and lots of different people .We didn’t help out at our stall, it was the Trouser bowl stall most of them got sold .

By Shanien and Freya

First  everyone went outside and gathered round the choir. It was freezing and sleeting. Then some small children  pushed the button that turns on the 2100 fairy lights on the tree. After that the choir started to sing, We Wish You a Merry Christmas then Make Your Way Up To Bethlehem next Away In A Manger and The Flood. If you were in the Choir you got hot chocolate with marshmallows and shortbread  or mince pies. Mrs  Beaton and Mrs Duckworth were there to help the Choir sing. The Choir sang very nicely and loudly which was good.

By Nicole and Paige.

On Sunday the 12th of November the pupil council went to Glenmuick Church to represent the school  at the remembrance service .We met outside the church then went in for the service.After the service the primary sevens headed outside and got the poppy wreath.I was the primary seven girl that laid and primary six Finn layed it with me.There was a two minute silence.After that all the people who were representing organisations like Brownies and the Aberdeenshire Council laid their poppy wreaths.When everyone was finished with the wreaths the Ballater Pipeband played.

By Poppy F.

In numeracy this term we have been learning how to journalise. This is writing down ways of doing things so if we get stuck we can take our own advice.In money we were learning about pin numbers, account numbers,hire purchase, profit and loss,budgeting and foreign exchange.In symmetry we have been creating symmetrical Christmas pictures.In sumdog Mrs Beaton has added 3rd level work which I really enjoy.

By  Findlay Main