Saturday October 9: Paper-mash masks # 1

The workshop officially started!
Not many students for the first day, but we didn't lose heart.
Francesca was the only teacher that day, but the mother of two children was there and she was very active and helpful.
First step: explaining to the kids how to tear newspaper pages in order to obtain straight stripes - almost perfect ones. The two students got it quickly and started to work on it with no problem.

Their mother was too busy talking to me and not concentrating on this first operation, so at the end we were laughing at her and her bunch of useless unshaped pieces of papers. Trying to figure how that could have happened, one of her sons promptly pointed out to her "You were not paying attention when Francesca was explaining the procedure!"

The rest of the workshop day went along in a very relaxing atmosphere and after 2 hours we had our paper-masks ready.

Then we all cleaned the place and we did it in the same spirit: not creating new rubbish. In fact we used cloth instead of paper towel!