Venice Mask!

Ooh! I could spend hours looking through this page. One project is crazier than the next. It’s so much goodness in one place. The cardboard sculptures, masks, and costumes are breathtaking. The mask pictured is part of a series of masks created for a school performance of Venice Mask.

'City of Light.'

During the Venice Carnivals in the past the streets of Venice were full of the people wearing masks which allowed them to protect their identity and remove any social differences. Besides, masks allowed a wearer hide his identity during licentious and dissolute activities.

White Masks

White masks are simple and unassuming. They semi-accurately represent a normal person’s face and have reasonably natural features with little variation across the different designs. These masks were used, as we discussed above, to allow the wearer to move around Venice, unrecognised.

• Craft paper or cardboard
• Mask templates: you can print ours at the end of this pack or draw your own
• Pen and paper
• Rubber band or string
• Scissors
• Glue

Choose a mask

template, print out

and then cut out.

Please note templates

1 and 2 are for smaller

children.

Choose a colour from

your craft paper. Draw

the template on the

paper and cut out, so

you have a colourful

mask.

If you don’t have

coloured craft paper

you can draw the

template on cardboard

then paint the mask in

your favourite colour.

Next, you need to

make two holes in

each mask, one on

the left and one on

the right so that the

rubber band / string

can be attached.

Draw a small circle on the left and right of

your mask – not too close to the outside.

If you are using a rubber band, cut the

band in half so it’s a rubber string

Feed one end of the string through the

first hole, and tie a knot around the mask:

Now put the mask on your face, and pull

the string around your head to test how

tight it should be.

You can decorate your mask in any way you

like! But if you want to make one like ours

you can follow me.