Metamorphosis ideas

Ok! It's a bunch- from me, from the manual, from everywhere! Chaos rules.

For each week's theme (and two weeks where I had to come up with original themes - Change Your Perspective and Change the World - our summer is long, baby) I'm listing a few ideas, and a rough guide to the pros, cons, and COST of each idea. Also, linking to inspiration/tutorials/previous posts, etc. If something is listed more than once, it's because I think it applies to more than one theme, and could be plugged in whenever it suits best.

Don't Bug Me, I'm Reading

Insect Origami
-Would need origami paper

Beaded Spiders
-A sign-up would be helpful to determine supplies necessary

Paper butterflies and butterfly mini-notebooks
-No sign-up necessary (Supplies are only paper, photocopies, wire and yarn)
- Brings in nature and metamorphosis with the butterflies
-Paper Butterflies to decorate Teen Area

Change Your Outside

Henna body art
-Temporary Henna tattoos, might need henna artist/volunteer
- definitely need at least one other person to help apply the henna to teens
- not something they can do on themselves, and probably need parent permission slips.

Zombie/Vampire makeup party
-Would need Halloween makeup, maybe a cape,
-use a camera to take pics when they are fully made up, and email to teens or print them later
-a volunteer with makeup experience would be helpful

Change Your Inside

Meditation
- change your inside and find inner zen
- would need volunteer to lead (unless you have confidence in leading it yourself!)

Change Your Things

T-Shirt Surgery
-Sign-up would be necessary to ensure having enough supplies
-This was a big hit last summer for me
-It cost about $35.00 though- ouch.

Jeans into Tote Bags
-would need to pre-collect and sew bottom edge of bag
-would need sign-up to ensure enough supplies
-sounds like a fun, recyling-focused program

Hardware Jewelry
-make modern, fun jewelry using washers and nuts from the hardware store
-Could ask people for bits and pieces from their toolboxes too

Duct Tape Wallets
– Transform humble Duct Tape into a useful and funky wallet
-Would need lots of Duct Tape

Shrinking Plastic
– Shrinky Dinks or #6 Recyclable plastic
-Sign up would be necessary to ensure having enough supplies
-Would need to use oven– fumes?
-Shrinky Dinks = expensive, #6 Recyclable plastic = free
- Guess which one I'll be doing?
-Guess which one gives more reliable and predictable results? ;)


Changing Technology
Diskette notebooks
– Turn pieces of obsolete technology and scrap paper into funky notebooks
- No sign-up necessary
- Brings in recycling and transforming 'discards' into usable and cool things.

Digital metamorphosis
– using the module at MyPopStudio, use a computer lab or laptop cart to look at before-and-afters in pictures that have been professionally retouched. Then maybe take a photo of each teen and have then try to manipulate it in Photoshop?
-Would need sign-up for lab use/computer use
-Would need a helper to take the photos and get them loaded onto the computers

Changing Times

Jeopardy game
-every question could be about pop culture in the 20th c US - eg. "This hip-swinging musician became an American icon in which conservative decade?" (screen would show a picture of Elvis) answer: The Fifties

Decade Costume Party
- Invite teens to dress up in the styles of different eras
- have some kind of prizes?
-maybe food from different times (eg. Jello mold salad and PopTarts?)

Changing Formats

Movie Night?
- How does a book transform when it becomes a movie?
- Expensive - $85 for film rights
- Could showcase a popular teen book that has been adapted for a movie.

Diskette notebooks
– Turn pieces of obsolete technology and scrap paper into funky notebooks
- No sign-up necessary
- Brings in recycling and transforming 'discards' into usable and cool things.

Metamorphosis Jeopardy
– Questions about teen books and movies that involve metamorphosis, coming of age, transformation, etc.

Changing Your Perspective

Soap carving
– transform a plain bar of soap into a sculpture
- No sign-up necessary


Re-View
- Found Art
-Make art from found pieces and recyclables
-might need signup to ensure enough suppies
-it would be great if other people could bring in 'junk drawer' items
-inexpensive 'shadow boxes' can be about $1.00 each

Altered Art Books
-Turn discarded board books into works of art
-Would need extensive prep work
- Would need to be a multiple session program
-Might need volunteer to lead multiple session program

Changing The World

Jeans into Tote Bags
-would need to pre-collect and sew bottom edge of bag-would need sign
-up to ensure enough supplies
-sounds like a fun, recyling-focused program

Diskette notebooks
– Turn pieces of obsolete technology and scrap paper into funky notebooks
- No sign-up necessary
- Brings in recycling and transforming 'discards' into usable and cool things.

Show An Inconvenient Truth
-- Expensive - $85 for film rights