Wednesday, January 18, 2012

African Masks

As part of our cooperation project with Le Ferradou school (our French partner) we will be working on performing a play together. It will be in French but the story is very international because the main character explores 5 different continents. Even though our performance is a long way off we are already preparing. Our first job was to find out about African masks. We learnt that they are traditionally worn for celebrations. Sometimes they are worn when performing dances. We looked at lots of examples before designing our own. Most African masks are made by carving wood but we will be using cardboard to make our masks. It is easier to cut and the masks will be lighter to wear!

10 comments:

  1. The shape of the African masks was neat. The colors were also interesting, with red, yellow, blue and a little bit of green. From Ryan.

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  2. I liked Irene's masque becouse
    it was round and shtriepie.
    XOXO love Cristina

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  3. Hello i'am Isabel I really liked all of your African mask designs. Well done. I can't wait to make the real masks.

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  4. Hello am Aksh we are making masks

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  5. What very careful drawings you have been doing in your sketchbooks. I can't wait to see the finished masks

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  6. You are all concentrating very hard to design your masks. Did you have to try many times to get them just right? When is your performance? Thank you for sharing your drawings.
    From Mrs. Kolenberg at Craigburn P.S.

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  7. Wow! What fantastic sketches! I can't wait to see your masks. They will look wonderful with all the lovely African colours. Thank you for sharing with us!

    Miss BB from Roydon, UK

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  8. Thank you Cristina for writing me that!
    I liked to do it!!
    see you at school!

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  9. I like when we went to do our masks.I like everyones.

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  10. I liked when we did our masks . It was awesome. I hope mine is going to be great.

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