Club de Arte 3:07: Decorating the Rag Dolls

THEME OF WEEK 3:07: Decorating Rag Dolls

26th, 27th of November and 1st December 2014

Art Club with Fundación Junto Con Los Niños - JUCONI 

and the Charlotte Miller Art Project in Guayaquil, Ecuador

IDEA AND AIMS:  For the children to complete the final part of the 3-stage process by personalising their rag doll's head with a face, with eyes, mouth and hair.

PROCESS: 

1. Hair: Tear up strips of magazines, choosing the colour of the pages to represent the desired hair colour for their rag doll.  Glue the strips to the head base.  

2. Face: Mix the skin colour and eye colour of choiec and paint in the eyes, mouth and skin. 

NOTE: With the first group, in Sergio Toral, coloured tissue paper was used instead of paint for the skin colours and print outs of eyes and mouths were used.  The tissue paper was vey messy and fiddly and the print out eyes too bold and brash, so for Socio Vivienda and Nueva Prosperina paint was used instead.  Some children in these groups cut out mouths and eyes from magazines. 

MATERIALS FOR ‘RAG DOLL HEADS’

Instruction posters and examples. 

paint, paintbrushes, cloths and bowls

magazines

scissors, silicone and glue

water, cloths and soap to clean up

camera

Meet three of the children's finished rag dolls:

NOTE: In both groups in Socio Vivienda 2 there have been issues with numbers of children attending the sessions, in part because of the new location.  Working in the church, and for messy sessions in the open air football pitch, has meant that it has not been possible to restrict the numbers of children to one specific register and many passing children have joined in for one-off sessions.  As previously mentioned, when work has been drying in the football pitch the children themselves have often damaged or destroyed it.  The consequence of all of this became very apprent in this session, where the idea was that each child worked on the base of the head that they had previously made.  In reality many children who appeared for this session had not made heads, or their heads had been destroyed.  Facilitators both repaired heads in the office before the session and  improvised during the session, asking children without balloon bases to paint on cardboard cut-out heads.