Join the fight against the coronavirus by creating and coloring equipment for healthcare teams!
Right now, there’s a brave team of nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals out there in the hospitals and the streets, doing everything they can to save lives. Their job is not only very important, but very exhausting too. Each one of these people have their own personalities, feelings and families waiting for them at home.
That’s why we invite you to imagine ways of bringing more joy to these heroes, coloring their clothes and accessories and creating objects that express their personalities in the hospitals and workplaces where they’re saving lives right now. It can be a mask, a cap, scrubs or even a badge.
Let’s make and color things that save lives!
Materials
You can use materials you already have at home. Here are some suggestions:
- Cardboard
- Assorted jars
- Pieces of paper and fabric
- Disposable coffee filters
- Tape
- Glue
- Scissors
- Strings
- Colored pencils
- Color pens
- Paint and brush
- Seeds and fruit peel
Steps
Look at an example of how to do this activity:
1. Imagine!
Ask your family at home to join you and discuss the current situation. What have we seen on TV and heard about the nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals that are working at the hospitals? Who are these people? Does that nurse that I saw on TV like the same type of chocolate I do? Does the doctor I saw during an interview like to play cards with her kids on the weekends? What could be her favorite band?
2. Create!
While you imagine the life, personality, dreams and interests of these people, use the materials you have to make objects or accessories you think are an important part of their routine. If you are doing this activity in the company of other people, you can all work as a group if you feel like it!
3. Share!
During and after the creative part, take a moment to share as a group what motivated you to create that object. What’s this person like? How did you try to represent them with this object? Were you inspired by someone specific when you made this?
Cool tip
As a way of getting inspiration, look for stories that healthcare professionals around the world are sharing or use someone you or your family knows as an example.
Take a look at what some people have created!
*The objects that were mentioned in this activity have educational and recreational purposes only, and do not substitute the medical safety equipment required to fight COVID-19.
Acknowledgements
This activity was created by Eduardo Bento and was inspìred by:
Experimenting with mask creation – Learn 2 Teach Teach 2 Learn,
Artist work of Campos das Vertentes region, Sao João del Rei- MG.
