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Hi Jamie,
We built a cave one time out of that thick paper that's used under
roofing and comes in big rolls. Sorry I don't know what it's called,
but it's very inexpensive. We built a chicken wire frame, tore the
paper off the roll, crumpled it up, then opened it up again and taped
it to the chicken wire with duct tape. After spray painting it with
several different "rock" colors, it looked very realistic and was
really cheap.
Hope that helps.
Anna
On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Jamie Alonzo wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I run an afterschool program for teens out of Yale's Peabody Museum
> of Natural History and my students are embarking on producing an
> exhibit focused on the geosciences employing a cave motif. Though
> I welcome any suggestions/advice, I was hoping to get help with the
> following:
> - A cheapish fabric that could be draped on the ceiling and/or
> walls that could be made to look like rock;
> - Other cost-effective rock solutions (we've considered carving foam);
> - A source for cheap, large-ish (1'-6' diameter), round, rigid
> (i.e. planet-like) structures that could be cut and mounted;
>
> If any of you had any of the above hanging around, available to
> loan, I'd be interested.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jamie
>
> (Funding for our exhibit is provided by NSF & IMLS)
>
>
>
> Jamie Alonzo
> Coordinator, Education Special Projects
> http://www.peabody.yale.edu/education/afterschool.html
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