From these two days trying out different methods to make masks and headdresses, willow workshop and how to do Art workshops in a primary school classroom I learnt...
Plasterzote
This is both easy and safe to use with children and allows them to get really involved in the making of the costumes, I think this material would be especially good for making masks or headdresses.
The sheets we were using (12/15mm thick) would be too thick to use in the schools I feel and was quite hard to manoeuvre but 3mm or 6mm would be perfect for children's little hands, and not-so-sharp scissors.
It is easy to paint to children could put there own designs on it.
In this workshop we also used the centre cane and wire as a combination together. I feel this could be a good material- but would definitely have to put something on the ends as a risk of the children hurting themselves/ poking eyes etc.
Willow
I'm not sure how confident I would be taking this into schools as I think the process is quite time consuming and there are many things that could go wrong. I think also it would be difficult to make sure the children make the right shapes. So this might be a great choice if the children were older- such as older secondary school children, but I think I will give this a miss with my 9-10 year olds.
Plasterzote
This is both easy and safe to use with children and allows them to get really involved in the making of the costumes, I think this material would be especially good for making masks or headdresses.
The sheets we were using (12/15mm thick) would be too thick to use in the schools I feel and was quite hard to manoeuvre but 3mm or 6mm would be perfect for children's little hands, and not-so-sharp scissors.
It is easy to paint to children could put there own designs on it.
In this workshop we also used the centre cane and wire as a combination together. I feel this could be a good material- but would definitely have to put something on the ends as a risk of the children hurting themselves/ poking eyes etc.
Willow
I'm not sure how confident I would be taking this into schools as I think the process is quite time consuming and there are many things that could go wrong. I think also it would be difficult to make sure the children make the right shapes. So this might be a great choice if the children were older- such as older secondary school children, but I think I will give this a miss with my 9-10 year olds.
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