Sculptural Headdress

This is my sculptural headdress that I made during class. I decided to go with a "Hawaiian" themed headdress and relate it to a "Hawaiian" themed fairy tale. In order to create this headdress I used several different shades of tissue paper. I used a dark purple for the crown and put a trim of yellow tissue paper on the bottom. Attached to the yellow tissue paper are several scrunched up balls of pink tissue paper which are supposed to represent flowers. To attach these flowers I simply used glue. On the back of the crown, several strips of lavender tissue paper flow down and mimic a vail. 


This is a fun and creative project that could easily be incorporated in the classroom in particular a second grade classroom. An easy way to introduce this project would be to start by reading several fairy tale stories then discussing the stories with the children. While discussing the stories address the fact that in several of the fairy tale stories the princesses wear crowns or headdress. Tell the students that this is an element that seems to be very common among fairy tales and maybe of the headdresses have a cultural relation to the story. Then tell them for their activity today they are going to create their own fairy tale and a corresponding headdress for their main character in their fairy tale. 


Several  California Content Standards for second graders are present in this activity. The standards that are most applicable to this activity include: 1.  Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. 2. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. 3. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. 4. Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.