JCC part 2

After a one week break, the JCC crew met again for the special needs art class. This time most of the participants were late, like 30 minutes! But it worked out well because some of them just cruised through the projects. The first one involved taking a hard, thick piece of tube (think like a very strong toilet paper roll) and gluing Popsicle sticks all around it vertically so it looked like a fence. Then they glued on a bottom piece and waited for it all to dry. We then painted them and there you go, pencil holders. It was cute but the glue was EVERYWHERE and the dexterity of some of the students was dubious. Thank G-D there are sinks in the room. We needed them. Then, as a 10 minute project, we decorated paper picture frames. it came in a kit and had a Hawaii theme. So there were these flowers, like the kind you get on a necklace, green tissue paper, and these funky shaped pipe cleaners that were meant to go in the center of the flowers as the stems. Well, only one woman could really do the project as it was shown, but most of the people loved just gluing on the flowers. Some just globed whatever on, not really caring about how it should be. I am really beginning to think of ways that this can be improved (as per my museums and community orgs class). I think that one really missing here is good socialization. Yes, they will talk to the helpers sometimes, and they might chat your ear off if you ask them a question, but they don't talk to each other. Something for me to think about.