Final day of workshops - not everything got finished. This wasn’t because of the time management it was mainly because of the nature of the design. When making my prototype my main issue with the design was the balance points of the headdress. Getting it to stay upright during dancing and movement. I had planned to constructed the head dresses in school however it would prove difficult for the children to meet the correct balance point so a decision was made between myself and the teachers at Westfield that i would get the children to finish all surface decoration, ever piece would be laminated and cut ready for construction, head measurements would be taken and i would construct the head dresses in Bournemouth and transport them to Weymouth with extra padding materials in case it was needed.
I was worried the children might be a little upset that they didn’t get to try there head dresses on that day however this was not an issue, the children were happy to see how the head dresses were going to look and expressed excitement for the costumes and the carnival.
With the stress of the construction in school gone, this meant the last session was a very relaxed easy going day applying more surface decoration and cable ties, talking to the children about carnival, if they were excited about there make up and dance workshops, what they had learnt from the experience.
One of the girls in the class even told me she had been inspired by the workshops and she would quite like to do an art based course after her GCSEs, she told me she liked the freedom I had given her with the design and being able to create her own character with in the seahorse was a way she could express her own creative skills with in the workshops. This was probably the best thank you I could have asked for knowing at least one of the children had gained something from the workshops as well as having an enjoyable time making the costumes.
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| Sea Horse Heads Constructed and Ready To be transported to Weymouth |
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