Crafts

**Fiesta Hispana: Craft Station -** Leanne Hocquard Room 103 Central
(Leanne will also be helping Ester with volunteer committee )


 * 1) **Plan a craft**: (I suggest one so that you aren’t trying to multitask.)

***Papel picado**: Hang the first one the student makes in the circle/entrance area of the auditorium to decorate the area. Any they make after that, they may take with them. This craft needs: scissors, examples (perhaps a fancy, string of papel picado to serve as an inspiration and model), cut tissue paper, glue sticks, pencils, white construction paper ( pre-cut) to glue the papel picado on to keep it sturdy, and masking tape for hanging. Make sure students write their ** first and last names ** and ** school ** on the back so I know where to return them after the fiesta.

***Flag Worksheets**: Both Tina and Leanne have already made lots of copies of these if needed. They were available in the fall 2007, but so few students chose to do them, that in 2008 and 2011, I didn’t even bring them. If this craft is chosen it needs: a variety of flag worksheets, some finished samples, crayons, glue sticks, and either craft sticks or plastic straws (available at Dollar Stores). These flags would be too small to effectively hang in the circle/entrance area, so students could simply take them home as they leave the craft room.

*Bring a variety of **Spanish music CDs** showcasing different countries and a player for background music in the room.

* I made several **signs** on large construction paper that read: “**//Craft – Papel Picado//**” and hung them outside the room. Then I hung a string of my plastic, papel picado right across the hall to draw attention to the room.

*There is a separate **area on the passport** for the students that made papel picado in the craft room. Once they finished, we wrote “Papel picado J ” in the art section of the passport. Bring several fine tipped, colored, felt markers to do this or perhaps a special stamp that will fit within that area of the passport.

*Volunteer chair explained when they work and where they go. *Shifts: 6:15 to 7:00 (set up, get explanations) and 7:00 to 7:45 (get explanations, clean up).
 * 1) **Obtain materials.** I basically use supplies from my room. (Tina and Jenn also supplied me with some tissue paper from their buildings in 2011.)
 * 2) In 2011, the volunteer chair (Ester) gathered all the volunteer slips from the elementary Spanish teachers, contacted the high school volunteers, and placed all volunteers in their respective volunteer categories and time slots. She then supplied me with that list so I had their names and times for the craft area.

*If you choose to decorate an area with the papel picado, you’ll want to assign a volunteer to serve as a runner (someone to take the crafts down to the area and tape to wall in a swag formation, eliminating the need for string).

Keep track of volunteers and their addresses (street and/or email) to whom you want to write thank yous to afterwards. **Have** **a sign up sheet asking for this information when they arrive for their shift.**