Making Venetian Masks - Session 6 & 7

Session 6:

Now the fun began!  After each child had decided on the form of their mask it was time to start chopping!

I decided to use cane fibre papier mache masks. However, I wanted the children to have more creative freedom on the form their masks took, so I purchased the full masks.

If the children could they sketched out the shape of their mask onto the papier mache masks and I chopped the masks.  This was too dangerous for children to do.  I had to use a combination of scissors and a craft knife.

The original shaped mask (on the left), the shapes after they've been cut.

Texture:
To avoid seeing the texture of the original masks the children applied a choice of materials.

What we used:
* Glue gun (hot glue gun)
* Layered Paper (like building up a collage effect)
Atelier Mouldling Compound


After the glue had dried each mask was coated with a good quality white acrylic paint.


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