Shadow Mural Workshop Part 1

This past week the class did the shadow mural workshop. Many of the students had a great time. First we did some free drawing with just a few guide lines.  The students were asked to draw a picture with three of more people in it.  This activity was very engaging for most of the students. We watched a few youtube videos about shadow play and mural making. Then we all sat down in small groups. The older students were prompted to come up with things that were important to them and some things that they thought were important to tell our community or the world. The younger children were prompted to draw images of their bodies bending and stretching in different ways. I was not directly over seeing the small children but I think that part to this aspect of the workshop was confusing for them but after a while they began to understand. Everyone had a ton of fun with the performance portion. We could really do this workshop over and over and continue to get more sophisticated results. I feel the novelty of the project created some crazy energy in the room.