Multicultural Masks

My partner and I did this lesson for 3rd grade about Multicultural Masks. To start off our lesson we told the students about a bunch of different masks, the cultures they were used in, and what they were used for. The first thing we had the students do was cut out eyes on their paper plates they were given. We then had the students paint the paper plate whatever color they wanted. Next they had to make a nose, either out of construction paper, foam, paint, crayons, markers, or glitter. They could also make their mouths out of construction paper, foam, paint, makers, crayons, or glitter. Next, they did the hair on the mask, which they made out of yarn or pipe cleaners. After they were done with all the facial features, they got to decorate their masks, with foam pieces or sparkles. At the end of our lesson we asked each student to write a couple sentences about why they chose the different materials and colors they did and if it reflected any of their facial features or interests.

An extension activity that we came up with would be an activity for social studies. We would assign each student a culture and they would have to do some research about that culture and then make a mask displaying that culture. All the students would share their masks at the end and explain their culture.

Once we were done grading everyone's masks we then displayed them on a bulletin board. For our bulletin board we hung all the mask, made a boarder, and titled it, "Faces Around the World." We had a description of our lesson and our names below the board.