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

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