This was an activity to get the boys at Casa Juconi practising different drawing techniques and looking at their surroundings. We took them outside to look at and draw in detail their neighbouring houses and streets
Friday 13 February 2009
Fancy dress & Photography
For our main art projects with both our Casa Juconi and Volcanes group, the children will be working with cameras to tell stories. We ran a session teaching the kids how to use the cameras, to think about how they were composing the images and how to take on different personalities being the model. With a box full of clothes, hats and other accessories the children had fun dressing up and taking each other’s photos. Of course we joined in too!
Centro banners
With the children at Centro Juconi we decided to run the same Banner project we ran with the children in Ecuador.
The children were excellent at listening carefully about how to stick their photos onto the fabric and how to use fabric paint. At the beginning of every session the kids would be waiting eagerly for us to arrive and then quietly and intently get on with the art activity in hand. Amazing!
The children were excellent at listening carefully about how to stick their photos onto the fabric and how to use fabric paint. At the beginning of every session the kids would be waiting eagerly for us to arrive and then quietly and intently get on with the art activity in hand. Amazing!
Box art
This was a short one-session project we did with the boys at Casa Juconi. Using old cereal boxes, coloured paper, tissue paper, coloured pens and lots of glue the boys filled the boxes with different things about themselves, things they liked, family and friends or their favourite cartoon characters.
The end results are colourful, engaging and really vary from one another.
The end results are colourful, engaging and really vary from one another.
Introduction Session
For all three groups we held a fun packed introductory session, for the children to get to know us and so that we could get to know them and their abilities.
We played a number of art games. The first was a quick drawing game where the children sat in pairs and drew each other. Once as normal, then without taking the pen of the paper, then with their other hand and finally with their eyes closed. They all seemed to enjoy this fast game and have a laugh at their funny drawings. Although one little boy at Centro Juconi got in a strop when asked to draw with his left hand and refused to do it!
For the other game we got the children to draw around each other on large pieces of paper. We then gave them different things to draw (family members, school, favourite animals etc) inside their figures. They only had 1 minute to draw each and then we gave them 10 minutes at the end to finish off and decorate the whole page. Centro Juconi worked with pens and paints, Casa Juconi with pens and tissue paper and Volcanes with pens and colouring pencils.
We played a number of art games. The first was a quick drawing game where the children sat in pairs and drew each other. Once as normal, then without taking the pen of the paper, then with their other hand and finally with their eyes closed. They all seemed to enjoy this fast game and have a laugh at their funny drawings. Although one little boy at Centro Juconi got in a strop when asked to draw with his left hand and refused to do it!
For the other game we got the children to draw around each other on large pieces of paper. We then gave them different things to draw (family members, school, favourite animals etc) inside their figures. They only had 1 minute to draw each and then we gave them 10 minutes at the end to finish off and decorate the whole page. Centro Juconi worked with pens and paints, Casa Juconi with pens and tissue paper and Volcanes with pens and colouring pencils.
We're in Mexico
We arrived in Mexico three weeks ago. We have been busy settling into to our new city, Puebla, and meeting all the staff and children at Juconi Mexico.
We will be here for 8 weeks, running a pilot CMAP art project with 3 different groups of children.
Puebla is a beautiful place 2 hrs south of Mexico City, we are at an altitude of 2160m and the city is surrounded by volcanoes and mountains (which we can see from our house).
We were taken aback by the number of differences between Ecuador & Mexico and the different Juconi offices;
- For a start, Mexican Spanish is completely different and we now have to learn a whole new list of vocabulary.
- It gets COLD here! We are wearing jumpers and scarves. (Sorry, we haven’t had snow though)
- The food is very different. There’s less rice and more tacos, which we have already become addicted to.
- We don’t stand out like a sore thumb, as there are plenty of ‘gringos’ in town.
As for the Juconi office, it has been running for around 7 years longer than in Ecuador. It is a much larger organisation and we are working with three of the different sections and offices. These sections are Casa Juconi, Centro Juconi & TRACA.
Casa Juconi is a residential home for 24 boys previously living on the streets. Most of the boys have left their homes because of abusive situations. While the boys are staying in the Casa, Juconi continues to work with them and their families. Some go to school and participate in work internships. We are working with a group of 9 boys aged between 10 – 14 yrs; some of them attend school in the mornings.
Centro Juconi is a day centre next to the central market in Puebla. The children come from market-working families. They attend a couple of sessions a week, providing them with a safe environment to learn and play in. Centro Juconi works with children from 6 months – 14yrs old. This is our largest group with 16 children aged 6 – 8yr olds.
The TRACA (trabajador niño calle) programme works with street-working children (similar to Ecuador). They work with the families and in the community. We will be meeting at one of the central Juconi offices (Volcanes) for the workshops where we will be working with a mixed group of 9 – 12yr olds.
For more information about Juconi Mexico please visit:
www.juconi.org.mx/english
We will be here for 8 weeks, running a pilot CMAP art project with 3 different groups of children.
Puebla is a beautiful place 2 hrs south of Mexico City, we are at an altitude of 2160m and the city is surrounded by volcanoes and mountains (which we can see from our house).
We were taken aback by the number of differences between Ecuador & Mexico and the different Juconi offices;
- For a start, Mexican Spanish is completely different and we now have to learn a whole new list of vocabulary.
- It gets COLD here! We are wearing jumpers and scarves. (Sorry, we haven’t had snow though)
- The food is very different. There’s less rice and more tacos, which we have already become addicted to.
- We don’t stand out like a sore thumb, as there are plenty of ‘gringos’ in town.
As for the Juconi office, it has been running for around 7 years longer than in Ecuador. It is a much larger organisation and we are working with three of the different sections and offices. These sections are Casa Juconi, Centro Juconi & TRACA.
Casa Juconi is a residential home for 24 boys previously living on the streets. Most of the boys have left their homes because of abusive situations. While the boys are staying in the Casa, Juconi continues to work with them and their families. Some go to school and participate in work internships. We are working with a group of 9 boys aged between 10 – 14 yrs; some of them attend school in the mornings.
Centro Juconi is a day centre next to the central market in Puebla. The children come from market-working families. They attend a couple of sessions a week, providing them with a safe environment to learn and play in. Centro Juconi works with children from 6 months – 14yrs old. This is our largest group with 16 children aged 6 – 8yr olds.
The TRACA (trabajador niño calle) programme works with street-working children (similar to Ecuador). They work with the families and in the community. We will be meeting at one of the central Juconi offices (Volcanes) for the workshops where we will be working with a mixed group of 9 – 12yr olds.
For more information about Juconi Mexico please visit:
www.juconi.org.mx/english
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