Overview of African Inspired Arts & Crafts

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Denise Robinson and I'm a set designer for television and film and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. Let's recap on the things that we made using African influenced things, we did a small shaker we used a cylinder tube with cap ends, a piece of fabric, glued it rolled it of course added the beads. With our African influenced pillow we used raffia some twang, some beads that I tooken from a beaded belt that I had, and added the beads to the pillow. Now I only did two sided here but you can do all four corners and of course this wouldn't be a pillow that someone would lay there head on. But it would be a decorative pillow that you could accent your sofa or chair with. Now with the larger rain stick we used a larger cylinder the same principal that we used with the shaker, glued the fabric, rolled it onto the cylinder of course we added rice instead of the beads to give a lighter sound. And we capped the ends with tassels and of course we used glue to glue down the material. Now with all this in mind these little crafts of course can be used and done by children give them something to do or adults, or make it a family project but next time you decorate think of African."