Texas-sized mum: Bosqueville students design and build giant 16 foot mum for homecoming
BOSQUEVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - A local high school is taking a Texas-sized mum to a new level.
Bosqueville High School students constructed a giant mum 16 feet long, 6 feet wide and weighing a hundred pounds. The massive mum was later hung from the Bulldog stadium press box for the school’s homecoming.
The mum, made mostly of paper, was built by floral design students and took about three weeks to construct.
Student Josh Jackson said the students used items they already owned to get the job done.
“We used all things we had at the ag shop. We used the staples, hot glue. We used rope and that’s how we ended up hanging it, but we had so many problems because it was going to be so big, and the cardboard would fold. We really had to figure out and work through the problem of ‘how do we make this thing work, but we did just that.”
Junior Maybree Rosanbalm said just getting the mum from the workspace over to the stadium was a chore.
“100 pounds of cardboard and paper. That’s pretty heavy and that’s pretty huge,” Rosanbalm said. " It took about 20 people on homecoming day to carry the big old mum from our ag shop all the way up here to the press box and that’s about a quarter of a mile and so that’s a big old giant mum."
The mum was the idea of Ag Science Teacher Aimee Welle.
While this was the first year for the giant mum, the school hopes to make it an annual tradition.
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