The curtains I mainly just fumbled together, I use a dowel to hang them and then just glued the braid on. I am no great stitcher! They worked though, so I poke a hole in each side of the box and then hot glued the dowel (and curtains) in place. They open and close nicely and the braid helps them hang.
For the backdrops I bought a large piece of very cheap plain fabric from Ikea. The length I bought cost £1.20 and we have lots left. We experimented in small swatches to see which things made the best colours and which effects we liked best.
We tried wet fabric with watercolour paints, dry fabric with watercolour paints and watercolour oil crayons on both wet and dry fabric. In all cases it is possible to blend the colours with a wet paintbrush. We also waited until some pieces were dry and drew into them using gold and silver pens. I tried using rock salt to draw up the colours and leave white spots, but it didn't work well.
Iona and granny started Painting a backdrop each. Granny did a scene from Sleeping Beauty and Iona worked on a sunset over Swan Lake.
And finally (sort of!) no ballet is complete without some ballerinas. I had bought some cardboard cut outs of people to save us trying to cut out our our dancers when all Iona really wanted to do was decorate them. Good call. We pulled out ribbons, sticky paper, pipe cleaners and paint and had at it. Iona made Clara and Spanish hot chocolate from The Nutcracker. I made a generic prince to be used whenever we need one.
The Finished Theatre
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