Ms. Gungan arranged for our homeschool group, PEACH, to take a tour of a local manufacturing company called Creative Foamworks of Dallas. If you're one of our Texas friends, you have probably seen the gigantic chair in front of Nebraska Furniture Mart. That was built by Foamworks. It is 12+ feet from the ground to just the bottom of the chair!
Everything they do is large pieces of foam, cut, shaped, sanded and the coated with a polypropylene exterior. They have created pieces for stage props, mall decorations, Christmas float pieces, etc. In the shop today they were working on a Pete the Dragon for the Children's Hospital. Pete will sit in the atrium where parents and kids visit.
The owner showed the kids the model he made and then explained the math and geometry behind constructing such a large piece that has to be made in sections and then assembled on site. In the lower right hand of the collage you see the Pete stuffed animal they are duplicating, the prototype, you see a man working on the head and below that is one of Pete's hands!
Apparently these types of shops are common in California, think the giant golden Oscars, but his shop is the only one in Texas! So if you see Megalodon teeth at Grapevine Mills Mall, or 12 foot tall ornaments hanging at the Galleria or drive my a giant chair on SH121, know that they were all made at Creative Foamworks!
Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones Luke 12:18
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