Can someone suggest some ideas for the cover of my social scrapbooking dealing with child labor? ?
I am thinking of burning a newspaper and covering the scrapbook with that and hanging like ripped pieces of clothes suggesting child labor.
other ideas would be helpful?
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Cover it with a burlap and get a child and place the hands in black paint and make hand prints, or you could scan in the cloth and print it out and then do the hand prints, make them different sizes.
Hope this sparks and idea
I would get a map of the world (sized down or up – to the size of your album) – and place red brads in all of the primary locations where Child Labor is most prominent.
If that seems like too much work….I would then consider creating a cover with random paper strips listing all of the odd jobs that children most commonly get used for ….
(ie: Child labor is common in some parts of the world, and can be factory work, mining, prostitution, quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents’ business, having one’s own small business (for example selling food), or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants (where they may also work as waiters). Other children are forced to do tedious and repetitive jobs such as: assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store’s products, or cleaning. However, rather than in factories and sweatshops, most child labour occurs in the informal sector, “selling many things on the streets, at work in agriculture or hidden away in houses — far from the reach of official labour inspectors and from media scrutiny.” And all the work that they did was done in all types of weather; and was also done for minimal pay.)
And distress it…. OR place large glass/marble beads (or watch glass) over some of the more horrific jobs (such as prostitution or street selling) to emphasize them…
*I like the idea of fringed ribbon to top it all off….OR fringed burlap like the other respondent mentioned.
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