Making Your World Unique

Step 1:

It’s time to decorate your Worlds! Because of our dearth of painting supplies and the like in the English department, for those of you who would like to get fancy, you’ll need to bring your own stash of craft supplies to class to decorate your Worlds. Acrylic paints are recommended for you artists of paper mache.

For the rest of us, I’ll provide some craft glue so that you can paste images/items symbolizing your World onto your paper mache balloons. At this stage, the priority is to make your World uniquely your own. So gather images from magazines, newspapers, etc. to represent your World and bring them to class on Thursday (Friday for period 1).

Step 2:

Once you are done decorating your World (and it has had a chance to dry), we will be hanging them throughout the room. Thus, you’ll want to create something that will make you proud and that you can bear looking at daily.

The World you create should reflect the “real world” that you live in now (as opposed to the transformed world you hope to help create through your hero journey). The images and items you use to decorate your World should reflect the values, ambitions, and expectations you’ve grown up with as well as symbols for the important people, events and activities in your life.

Step 3:

The balloons will be hung by their belly buttons, so keep that in mind as you plan your design and how you’ll rest your balloon to dry. The belly button surface should go face down on the paper to dry, and you may need to prop your balloon up to keep it from losing any of your images/glue. However, keep in mind that they’ll hang “upside down” in the room (if that makes a difference in your planning).

Finally, attach the string to the belly button of your balloon and you are through. Clean your hands and your work stations and you’ll be finished with this stage of making your World!