Paper Shoes

I wanted to make children's paper shoes with combining some of my daisy silkscreen on tissue paper along with children's own words on violence.

 

I first made the toe part of the shoe by mixing PVA glue and water and placing layers of tissue paper on a round object and spraying the mixture in between the layers. I then let it dry over night.

 

 

I then cut the shape in half and added tabs onto the inside.

 

 

 

I wanted to have the children's words in child like writing and couldn't ask them to write them down, as some of the thoughts are shocking! I asked some of my friends to write down the children's thoughts by using their non-dominant hand.

 

I cut out the base of the shoes from some card and also from the written thoughts. I glued the text to the card.

 

 

 

 

I then cut out the side panels and added some stitching around the edges.

 

 

 

Next, I collaged some of my screened daisies on the base of inside of the shoe base, glued the toe part to the base of the shoe and continued with gluing the side panels on too.

 

 

I then collaged more screened daisies onto the toe part.

 

 

Finally I then added a mini pom pom on the side as buttons.

 

 

Here are the soles of the shoes