3rd Workshop- 24/05/2012

Task One

Put together the headdress shapes by bending them around and measuring, putting a rectangle of fibre glass tape down, then stapling the elastic the headdress in the appropriate places. Then covering the staples in more fibre glass tape so they wouldn't go into the head.

Task Two

Painting the designs on the mask area copying the templates stuck to the walls of the classroom using the colours Orange, Gold and green.

These were the finished designs on the masks of the headdresses

                                            Task Three


Sewing the bells onto the elastic. I showed them how to do it. Several times before they went off to try it. Tie a knot, sew twice through elastic twice through the bell, once through elastic and tie a knot. Each bell done separately.


Luckily my teacher agreed to get them all finished by the next session.

                                         

This afternoon there were people in filming the Class for the Moving Tides DVD, this meant I swapped round some of the tasks so that it would be more exciting for the camera crew, lots of different things going on.
                                                  Task Four and Five

The children to be split into two groups. One group to go with the teacher to cut off the elastic to do the 'Big Reveal' of the tie dye t-shirts.
The other group came with me to place three/five pieces of fibre glass tape on the plasterzote and make 3 holes in the primary rectangles and 5 in the leader rectangles where the tape was, And thread the cable ties through. So they were ready to attach to the main headdress.























Problem Solving/ What I learnt:

• As the weather was so hot I found the children were a little distracted and it was harder this time to get them to concentrate so was more challenging to get them to follow instruction, such as the cable ties some of them were put in the wrong way round.
• Last week I struggled getting them to come up with their own designs for the card which is to be laminated, this week I struggled to get them to follow the designs in which I came up with them to copy. Though they haven't followed the design 100% they look great as a group on the Mask part of the headdress. 
• I think the children really enjoyed taking the elastic bands off the t-shirt to see what the dye revealed.
• The bells-some people found it easy (especially the girls) and had finished by the end of the workshop and were helping other class mates to get it finished. Others really struggled and had never tied a knot before so one-to-one demonstrations enabled me to show each child clearly how to do it. I found the best way was to show them  how to do it once, then they show me they could do it while I  watched that way i knew if they understood or not.