Pirates! The Musical Bandannas

We've gone through many steps to print these amazing bandannas for all King George students to wear during our production of Pirates! The Musical.

1. brainstormed a list of things to draw, from parrots to treasure chests
2. sketched out designs on paper
3. transferred designs to foam plates and carved them in using ball point pens
4. learned the printing technique 
5. tested our "stamps" using tempra paint on paper

Mrs LT's daughter Jahn cut fabric into enough squares for every student to make a bandanna using our stamps. Today five classes, including Room 13 stamped their bandannas. Two students at a time worked with Jahn to help the other kids print, wash their hands and go back and forth from class. 

On Wednesday 26 April we'll help the other classes to print. Teachers will keep the bandannas until the night of the concert when they'll all be worn and taken home afterwards. There are five songs in the musical that different groups of students sing and each group will have a different colour of ink on their white bandannas.