THEME OF WEEK 2:02: Our own personal Superheroes and Super-heroines
Art Club with Fundación Junto Con Los Niños - JUCONI
and the Charlotte Miller Art Project in Guayaquil, Ecuador
IDEA AND AIMS: Continuing on from the group-imagined Superheroes and Super-heroines of last week the children this week imagined and designed their own personal super-characters, again thinking about what their name and super-power would be.
NB. Noticing in the first session with Socio Vivienda that some of the younger or less confident kids struggled with drawing their characters from scratch I created sheets of drawn outlines of boys, girls, masks, capes, boots, tools, weapons and vehicles for the kids to cut-out, stick and colour-in to create their super-characters in the following sessions.
Having these cut-out-stick-&-colour sheets for Sergio Toral and Nueva Prosperina worked really well in facilitating the kids in creating their own original superhero and heroine characters. It was really interesting to observe the various choices that the different children made about how much they would use the sheets. Some used the sheets for all parts of their character, others combined their own drawing with some imagery from the sheets and others choose to draw their entire character themselves. This was an interesting learning point for me as a facilitator in recognising the importance and value of children who are new to art processes or lack confidence having reference to material to copy from or use directly in their work, in order to begin to build their own internal library of images.
PROCESS:
1. Facilitator preparation of cut-out-stick-&-colour sheets with outlines of boys, girls, masks, boots, capes, vehicles, tools, weapons, shields etc.
2. Kids design their own personal superhero or super-heronine character with any combination of drawing and cut-&-stick imagery that they want.
3. Kids write the name and special power of their super-character on their design.
MATERIALS: cut-out-&-stick sheets, felt pens, pencils, rubbers, sharpeners, scissors, glue, characters from the previous week, ref. images
NB. Noticing in the first session with Socio Vivienda that some of the younger or less confident kids struggled with drawing their characters from scratch I created sheets of drawn outlines of boys, girls, masks, capes, boots, tools, weapons and vehicles for the kids to cut-out, stick and colour-in to create their super-characters in the following sessions.
Having these cut-out-stick-&-colour sheets for Sergio Toral and Nueva Prosperina worked really well in facilitating the kids in creating their own original superhero and heroine characters. It was really interesting to observe the various choices that the different children made about how much they would use the sheets. Some used the sheets for all parts of their character, others combined their own drawing with some imagery from the sheets and others choose to draw their entire character themselves. This was an interesting learning point for me as a facilitator in recognising the importance and value of children who are new to art processes or lack confidence having reference to material to copy from or use directly in their work, in order to begin to build their own internal library of images.
PROCESS:
1. Facilitator preparation of cut-out-stick-&-colour sheets with outlines of boys, girls, masks, boots, capes, vehicles, tools, weapons, shields etc.
2. Kids design their own personal superhero or super-heronine character with any combination of drawing and cut-&-stick imagery that they want.
3. Kids write the name and special power of their super-character on their design.
MATERIALS: cut-out-&-stick sheets, felt pens, pencils, rubbers, sharpeners, scissors, glue, characters from the previous week, ref. images
MEET THE KIDS' SUPER-CHARACTERS...
…from SERGIO TORAL:
…from NUEVA PROSPERINA:
…and from SOCIO VIVIENDA:
In Socio Vivienda the kids got one step ahead and made their super-characters' capes as well, using colourful rice sacs as the base and decorating them with marker-pen drawings and Fomix designs:
Keep an eye out here over the upcoming weeks
as all of the kids start to create their superhero costumes and props.
:-)
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