5th grade students looked at masks from Mexico, West Africa, and New Orleans to get ideas for their own mask designs. We first planned out ideas, shapes, patterns, emotion, animal, and then transferred the drawings to tooling foil. The students used ball point pens to carve the drawings into the tooling foil and then they cut them out, added color with sharpie markers, and embellished them with craft objects. When students were finished, they used cameras to document each others' artwork.
