CHINESE OPERA MASK

Let´s celebrate Chinese New Year.
Make and design your own paper Chinese opera mask in a few easy steps.




MATERIALS

Printable white card

Crayons or paint

Scissors

Craft knife

Hole punch

Rubber bands

STEPS

1.- Print-out either the blank mask template or the ready-to-color mask template.

2.-If you chose the blank mask template, draw designs to create a character for your mask. Click  here for some samples of Chinese opera mask designs.

3.- Colour or paint your mask.

4.- Cut out and including the eyeholes.

5.- You may cut a slit along the bottom of the nose to allow for some breathing room when you wear the mask.

6.-Punch holes on opposite sides of the mask. These holes should be at the same level as your ears.

7.-Attach a rubber band on each hole and wear the mask.

SIMBOL OF PEACE: ORIGAMI CRANE

Only with a piece of paper and you own hands, you can create an origame Peace Crane. Follow the instructions and make your own.

The Thousand Origami Cranes has become a symbol of world peace through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who tried to save off her death from leukemia as a result of radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II by making one thousand origami cranes, having folded only 644 before her death, and that her friends completed and buried them all with her. (This is only one version of the story. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum states that she did, in fact, complete the 1,000 cranes). Click here if you want to learn more about it.