[HelpDesk] sculpture

[susanbishara at charter.net]

Hello I hope you can help me.  I am the new fine arts director at a very poor school avg income is less than $14k.  I am trying to bring things to my students that they might never be able to experience.  We already use legos in the art room ( I purchased out of my pockets).The kids love Legos and building!
I have a vision of a 4 foot tall Lego eagle(our school mascot) made out of royal blocks white head and yellow beak and tallons.  I am currently writing grants to procure the funding. Could L draw take a drawing and make it into the masterplan for exact blocks we would need to make this sculpture? 
My family recently visited Walt Disney World and I saw the huge Lego sculpture there.  My boys were facinated and that inspired my Eagle for our school of 700+ kids k-5th grade. What a great  benefit it would be for the kids to work on a large build and what a fun addition the sculpture would be to our school. ( it is OLD and needs sprucing up)
I wrote to Lego and they said they did not fund this sort of thing but I have now found an engineering firm with a $2000.00 grant that I think this project will appeal to- I just need to get realistic about what kind of numbers on the bricks.  Would I have a wood under eagle and then build with bricks around or should the sculpture be pure bricks? Do you know others I might talk to and also other possible funding avenues.  Thanks - Susan Bishara 
Gililland Elem 
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701 Waggoman 
Fort Worth Tx USA -76131