Head Art with Kids

By Sara:

When Anthony and I were in the US for a vacation to see our families, some friends of ours generously donated a bunch of art supplies to me which I was able to bring back to enhance my art classes with kids in Soroti.  Now, I have all kinds of exciting resources to share with them like nice multimedia paper, watercolors, colored pencils, markers, beads and elastic, and origami paper!

Since the August-September school holiday was right after we got home to Soroti, I wasn't able to do a very complicated or extensive class, but didn't want to miss doing something with the kids, so I threw something together.  It was a bit hectic since I invited a lot of kids (more than I had for the painting classes).  In order to use the time I had, instead of doing several different classes, I had all the kids come together.  But they behaved pretty well and seemed to enjoy interacting with each other, even the ones who hadn't know each other before.

While we waited for everyone to show up, they had a great time working on coloring pages with the markers and colored pencils.  

Then, I divided them into three groups who rotated between different activities so everyone got to do everything.  It allowed me and Paul, who helped me out, to give closer attention to smaller numbers of kids at a time. 

There were beads to make bracelets with.

We made a few origami animals together.  The cat was a big hit - there was a lot of meowing and yowling once they got finished with that one! 

The big project was one where we traced the shadow of each kid's profile and then they filled in the space with drawings of plants and animals and whatever their hearts desired.  It really showed their creativity since each project turned out uniquely.