Girls Club Crafts

In the picture below you can see (from left to right) some of our Divas; Alani, Yohani, Carolina, Rosemary, Anamilka, and Loraina. They are sitting in Girls Club and working on a craft, made with white rice. You can see the results of their work to the side. These girls have been coming to the Club for almost 6 months now, and they have come so far. Back in June, when the Girls Club started, we would try to organize crafts for the kids. The girls had never done anything like that before, and were so self conscious about their abilities. They were unwilling to even attempt the craft on their own; even the simple act of drawing a flower or colouring in a picture. They would want one of us standing behind them; often asking for us to do it for them or to hold the pencil with them. These pictures show how far they have come. Not only are they now able to have fun creating crafts and working independantly, but they are also able to gain self confidence in their abilities.

Kite Making

The Boys Club spent a class working on kite making. The kids are so creative and love doing projects like this. They went home with their kites, and shortly after, ran back to the Center to show Liz and Cathy their kites. They pointed in the distance, and there, tied to the house of one of the boys, were their kites flying high!

Corking

The Girls Club is working on learning a new craft; corking (in England called knitting Nancy's or knitting dolly's). This is something that Isamay and Yamali's mother, Jaritza, came to the Club with a few weeks ago (see that post HERE). They are using rollers and bobby pins to make these hair pom-pom's. Pictured with teacher Teresa are (top row) Andrieli, Yaneli, and Cristina, and (bottom row) Heidy, Camili, and Meriledi.

Jaritza

This week Isamay and Yamali's mother, Jaritza, came to the club with a craft. She will hold a class for the all the other mothers that want to learn. She makes hair pom poms out of yarn. What is most impressive is what she makes them with. There is a name for this craft, usually done with a wooden spool, if anyone knows the name please let us know. Jaritza doesn't have a proper wooden spool, she makes her hair pom poms from a hair roller with 4 bobby pins stuck to it. She runs the yarn around, and lifts up each corner over the bobby pins with a little crochet hook. The yarn makes a round tube like line of yarn. She then makes the pom poms from wool with cardboard, and ends up with big colorful pom poms that are used for hair ties for the girls. You can see little Estefania as our model.





Written by Cathy