Most of the students are now finished adding the paper mache strips and are onto the glue and cloth. Second Chance had some great old sheets in their rag bag so the kids tore them into strips and dunked them into Elmer's glue and there you have it....the last layer before the paint.
I demoed the setting of the eyes...mine are not really perfect but hey..cloth eyelids and wrinkles..fun stuff. We don't have as many students as we started with but one ambitious one finished up early and entered her head in the Scholastic Art Show and won a silver!! I will photo that one for the next blog.
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