A CURIOUS Wee County schoolboy put his crafty skills to work to create a model of the glassworks in Alloa out of cardboard.

Kian Conlan, 6, has long been enchanted by the towering O-I plant down at Kelliebank and is full of questions about what goes on inside.

He is forever pressing his uncle, Gavin Doig, for details about his workplace, asking what his hard hat is for and what he does in a day.

And the Tullibody youngster decided to put his imagination to the test, when he constructed his version of the building out of recycled items and sticky tape.

Mum Michelle said: “He loves building. He just decided that he would try it and he just turned round and said it was the glassworks.

“He has seen it from the outside; he gets a bit fascinated when he sees it, and wonders what all the chutes are for and things like that.

“When you pass it he is constantly asking questions – he likes to know everything.

“If you could put him in there he would have a ball."

When Kian was visiting family for his grandad's birthday, he spotted a cardboard box that was going spare.

He asked if he could have it and became architect and builder in one when he set off to shape a house.

However, as the project went along it became more ambitious and he set-out to create the glassworks.

After the first day, he was itching to get back to it and completed his finished piece in just two days.

With a little help cutting from grandad, he put together boxes for the main building, decided to fashion a chute out of sticky tape and used the inside of kitchen roll for the chimney.

Kian, a pupil at Banchory Primary School, is proud as punch and mum Michelle said he has been showing everyone.

She said: “I was actually quite shocked when he said he was making the glassworks and the way it turned out.

“He’s only six – that’s the first thing he’s done, with boxes and things anyway.

“He’s still going on about it now. My brother told him that he contacted the paper and he said: 'Mum, I’m going to be in the paper'.”

Gordon Leckie, Plant Manager at O-I Alloa, said: “The glassworks has been part of Alloa’s heritage for over 250 years and we’re thrilled that it still excites the interest of youngsters like Kian. His model is wonderful.

"If he keeps his interest as he goes up through school, I can see him having a great career as an engineer of tomorrow.”