After making a tree and giraffe out of yellow and black tissue paper and newspaper cutouts with my students, their teachers decided that it would be a great idea to use same technique to make a SpongeBob too. Here in Jordan, Disney and cartoon characters are idolized. They are seen as cute works of art that should be plastered all over the walls. I, on the other hand, don’t feel that way. But rather than rejecting the idea automatically, I agreed to help. The next morning, I showed up with tons of yellow, red, and black tissue paper and posterboard to make the SpongeBob with my students. As I was adding the finishing touches to the SpongeBob, I got an idea. What if we hung the tree and SpongeBob out in the waiting room and built a sort of park scenery with butterflies, flowers, clouds, and a sun? That way, the parents and any visitors could see what we have been working on and the waiting room would gain a new welcoming feel. I proposed the idea to my mudeer and got the okay. The teachers became thrilled. They volunteered to write the students’ names on the artworks so that people would know who had worked on what.
Here is a picture of the teachers and students working on SpongeBob:
During the next couple of the days, we made butterflies, birds, flowers, clouds, and a sun to be added to the walls. With every addition, the students’ excitement grew a little more. As they walked through the waiting room and to their classroom, they would point out their artworks on the walls to me–exactly how I imagined! A parent would joke and ask if we were having a hefla or party because all kinds of great things were getting hung on the walls. Below are two panoramic pictures of the room now:
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