Can you tell what it is yet?

 

A few weeks ago, CBC and I had my niece to stay with us for 24hours- it was beautiful weather and we camped in the garden (she's never been camping before), made up music, drew, watched TV, ate sweeties and then on the Friday morning, went to the beach in Southend.

She was super excited about this and was keen to get there early to avoid the crush.  It was great as there were hardly any people where we went.  

Alas, the tide was completely out- it seemed like about  a mile away.  There was a concrete pool to collect some water in so we went there to paddle.  Then, I had the idea, whilst waiting for the tide to come back in a bit more, that we could make a piece of beach art. 

I told CBC to collect blue shells (mussels), K to collect white oyster shells and I would collect brown pebbles to construct a piece.

Here's a series of pictures of it in pieces.  At which picture did you guess what it was going to be?

The real picture is at the end...

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And here is the final picture.

Later on, a lady who was in her beach hut came over to have a look at it whilst we were swimming in the sea (the tide came in super quickly after doing this!) and she was very impressed!

Of course, it was very sad when it washed away a while later.

What picture would you have made?