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Iron Man to go on show at Ted Hughes Festival
Children from six primary schools have used their combined skills to make a 9ft sculpture out of plastic bottles, cardboard and newspaper.
It has been named Iron Man and will go on display at the Ted Hughes Festival, in Mytholmroyd, in the autumn.
"The project was inspired by Hughes' story about The Iron Man," said supervising artist, Mick Kirkby-Geddes.
"I remember it being read to us at school and it really firing my imagination."
The primary schools involved in the project were Cragg Vale, Heptonstall, Burnley Road, Hebden Royd, Luddenden Foot and Scout Road. "We started with some sketches and a pile of plastic bottles, cardboard and newspaper and the plan was to turn that into a limb of the Iron Man in a day."
The sculpture is now drying in the studio waiting to be painted, and will then be put up in Mytholmroyd Community Centre.
Shirley Horsfall, a teacher at Hebden Royd school, said: "It was a marvellous project for the children to be involved with. They were really enthusiastic."
Hughes's story about a huge iron man who struggles to put himself together after being smashed to pieces after falling from a cliff was first published in 1968 and has sold over a million copies.
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