Sculpural Head Pieces

*My Sculptural Headdress*

     I researched Hindu sculptural head pieces and I was attracted to the jewelry they use to create their elegant head pieces. Therefore, when designing a head piece for Cinderella, I decided to use the Hindu headdress as inspiration. I bought fake jewels and sequence as material. During class, I cut a long strip of construction paper, long enough to wear. Then, I used the silver jewels to create a circular design and surrounded it with red sequence. Then, I cut smaller and thinner strips of construction paper and added sequence to them to simulate that the head piece had hanging jewels. I also added a few jewels throughout to make it more sparkly.

    I would use this project as a way for students to think outside the box. If it was a second grade class, I would read out loud two stories of Cinderella like we did in class and then ask them to create an original, cultural headpiece.In other words, instead of showing them a model of a cultural headpiece, I would ask them to create one for a Cinderella from a different country. I think it would be interesting to observe their thought process and see how they depict different cultures. 

The California Content Standards used for this project:

Reading Standards for Literature K–5
Grade Two:

5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including
describing how the beginning introduces the story
and the ending concludes the action.

6.Acknowledge differences in the points of view of
characters, including by speaking in a different
voice for each character when reading dialogue
aloud.

7. Use information gained from the illustrations and
words in a print or digital text to demonstrate
understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Compare and contrast two or more versions of
the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by
different authors or from different cultures.