是不是能夠做得更多？是我們每一次課程前總在思考的。如何做到在課程中融入更多的不同元素，來增添孩子視界的色彩。所以我們這次去到台東，可是備足了行囊，要帶給偶爾才能見一次的孩子們豐富的一天！
Today was an eye-opener for us; we have always wanted to learn more about the culture of the kids and were so keen to not only lead a quick course on how death is honored in various cultures, but hear the indigenous Amis kids take on it within their own practices. Please scroll below for English!
課程從介紹原住民與墨西哥文化開始。我們跟孩子們討論了阿美族的豐年祭，竟意外得知，孩子們對自己族群的認識，比想像中更加深入，一眼便看穿照片中的阿美族是花蓮地區而非台東的。而接著的墨西哥鬼節，那五顏六色的骷顱頭彩繪，也恰恰呼應台東阿美族傳統服飾鮮豔色彩的運用。紅的、白的、黃的、藍的，蠟筆在紙上率性創作，為骷顱頭餅乾畫草稿。就是一開始扭捏著說畫不了的孩子，最終都能向我們展現世上絕無僅有的，充滿童趣筆觸的可愛作品。
緊接著進入今天第一個重頭戲，就是彩繪骷顱頭餅乾。小朋友們在廚房幫著一起調純素的染料，一瓶一瓶，承襲他們的骷顱頭草稿上豐沛的色彩，在滿滿墨西哥風格的餅乾上，小朋友一邊裝飾餅乾，都一邊流口水呢！除了可愛的餅乾，還要享用墨西哥風味的烤玉米（自己做純素美乃滋）來做短暫的休息，小朋友親自抹上獨特的抹醬，啃得不亦樂乎。
這次不僅墨西個鬼節的骷顱頭餅乾，還一併為台東的孩子帶來萬聖節的特效化妝！我們用簡單的器具，帶了上次特效化妝老師給的素材，當中包括一瓶老師特調的假血漿，準備讓孩子們好好妝扮。首先由 April 老師教大家基本的上色順序，黏上像皮膚的黏土後，用眼影跟口紅做出黑青的效果，最後，用逼真的血畫龍點睛，就完成啦！逼真的傷口，讓大家嘻鬧的很開心。
這次很難得的跟孩子們一起享用了純素晚餐，而夜晚也在此時悄悄的來臨。今天一樣與孩子們有很美好的課程，但我們不害怕與孩子們分別，因為長期陪伴他們，就是我們的使命。
老師 Teacher: April Chen
攝影師 Photographer：Daisy Lin | Jessica Yang
贊助者：
原住民族委員會推展原住民教育文化補助 | 社團法人台灣公益服務協會|陳思穎|舞茶茶有限公司|Austin S. Lin|龔薇之|陳杰妤|台灣味|鄭安婕|Kim Chou |林奕希|林彤珊|Sarah Milne|陳盈如 |捷式股份有限公司|洪于婷|吉峰廣告工程有限公司| 台灣跑山獸有限公 | 傢式國際股份有限公司 | 台中福華大飯 | Lulu Chandler
特別感謝 Special Thanks:
郭慈幼, 臺東市新馬蘭復基fukid部落
It was yet another learning experience for us as we listened to the children and only hope more courses can be like this in the future. In keeping along with the theme of the Day of Dead, kids were shown some of the symbols and sketched their life-size skulls. We also experimented as a group creating Mexican street corn for lunch, the vegan mayo we had prepped before.
After enjoying our early dinner, we brought another element to our workshop this time. With teacher Mandy Chin, we had so much fun with special effects makeup for Halloween we wanted to continue to spread the “scare” although it was already the middle of November. The kids picked it up quickly and had a ton of fun in the “witching hour” – in 2019 we want to expand the full course of special effects makeup along with horror movies, media effects, and fake news – thank you for your support and hope you can join us!
