Decorating the Space



Objective(s) & Context

  1. Recycle materials in order to decorate the girls’ meeting space and make it their own.

  2. Establish a physical and social environment where girls feel safe.

 

Duration

60 minutes

 

Group Size

5–25

 

Age Group

8 +

 

Skills

Creativity

 

Format(s) and Technique(s)

Arts-based

 

Materials

Arts supplies

Scraps of fabric

Glue

Markers

Scissors

Old clothing

Posters

Pictures

Objects

 

Facilitation Tips

  • Be available to support creative ideas, mediating conflicts in discussions, and helping out participants.

  • A good way to encourage the less enthusiastic or discouraged participants is to suggest they collaborate either with you or another facilitator or with the other participants.

  • Don't forget to support creative ideas and to have a lot of different kind of material to motivate the girls.

  • Taking pictures of the art projects they created and sending it to them via email is one way to encourage more excitement and give them more connection and ownership to the ideas. You can suggest that they can use the image as a screensaver or show it to their friends!

 

Leading the Activity: Steps to Take

1. Explain that this activity is for participants to just have fun and consider how old things

can be recycled into beautiful, cool new things to decorate the space around them and claim it as their own.

2. Tell participants that they can use all the materials and objects and repurpose them however they would like to decorate their space.

3. Once the art has been made, hang it on the walls if possible.

4. Ask the group “How do you feel in your new space?”

 

Success Indicators

Participants are:

  • Having a good time

  • Respecting each other’s creativity and working together

  • More resourceful

 

Source: Girls Action Foundation, The Action Recipe Book: Workshops to Engage Girls, in the Social Change, Art and Creative Expression section