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More Photos from the 2007 Garrett County Procession

Get Involved with the Procession

How do you get involved with the Procession? Simple.

  • Come and participate in one of our pre-procession art or music workshops. Call us or check our Workshops Page for a current schedule of workshops.
  • Contact us to register your group.
  • Make a costume, bring a drum or a rythm shaker, or bring critters on sticks and join in the Procession.
  • Donate: TIME (in the studio or as an organizational volunteer.)
  • Donate: MATERIALS (check out our Supplies Wish List below.)
  • Donate: MONEY (we are on a very low budget and could always use help.)
  • Come and witness the Procession and celebrate our wildlife.
  • Are you an artist? Teach a workshop or come to the Community Art Studio and share your talent.
  • Are you a musician or a dancer? Teach or play at a workshop, recruit other drummers and dancers, or form your own music or dance group.
  • Come to the Community Arts Studio and help us make percussion instruments and shakers to give out to onlookers on the Procession Day.

Procession Supplies Wish List

Things that stick stuff together

  • Hot glue guns
  • Glue sticks
  • Masking tape
  • Duct tape
  • Staples and staplers
  • White glue
  • Tacky glue
  • Modge podge

Things that cut stuff apart

  • Scissors
  • Scissors sharpeners
  • Xacto knives (and replacement blades)
  • Utility Knives (and replacement blades)
  • Paper punches

Shiny things and fabric

  • Beads
  • Feathers
  • Sequins
  • Glitter
  • Trays for catching extra glitter
  • Scrap fabric
  • Burlap
  • Fake fur
  • Quilt batting
  • Old socks

Batik supplies

  • Tjanting tools
  • Hot pots for batik white blue
  • Acrylic paints
  • White cotton sheets
  • Paraffin

Things for drawing with

  • Pencils
  • Crayons
  • Craypas
  • Magic markers
  • Sharpies

Things for painting with

  • Paint brushes
  • Latex paint
  • Tempera paints
  • Acrylic paint

Bendy stuff

  • Pipe cleaners
  • Lightweight chicken wire
  • Thick gauge wire for batik butterfly wings
  • Various wires

Stringy stuff

  • Fishing line and swivel hooks for batik windsocks
  • Raffia
  • Yarn
  • Twine
  • Rope
  • Cord

Things for making structures, poles, or hoops

  • Flexible plastic tubing for hoops for windsocks
  • PVC piping
  • Dowels (all sizes)
  • Bamboo
  • Supple willow or other branches

Drum makings

  • 5-gallon buckets
  • 5-gallon water jugs
  • Driftwood or sticks for drum sticks

Bell making

  • 1 ½” – 2” PVC piping
  • Metal tubing
  • Rubber bands

Papier mache supplies

  • Plaster gauze
  • Plastic tubs for water or mache mix
  • Newspaper
  • Balloons

Things with various uses

  • See-through plastic containers with lids
  • Petroleum jelly
  • Trash can liners

Papery stuff

  • Cardboard
  • Newspaper
  • Brown paper bags
  • Large corrugated cardbroad
  • Tag board (like cereal boxes or used
  • campaign signs)
  • Wax paper
  • Rolls of white or brown “butcher”
  • paper
  • Clean newsprint
  • Colored construction paper
  • Tissue paper
  • Foil wrapping paper

Things to make rattles and shakers with

  • Popcorn (unpopped) and small beans for inside shakers
  • Rice
  • BBs
  • Aquarium rocks
  • Empty cans and bottles for shakers
  • Plastic Easter eggs
  • Film canisters
  • Soda bottles
  • Things that can rattle or jingle (like keys, cat bells, small buttons)

Container-ish things

  • Metal cans (coffee and other sizes)
  • Juice can lids
  • Bottle lids

Thingie-things

  • Rolls from paper towels and toilet paper
  • Squishy foam, not Styrofoam
  • Egg cartons
  • Bendy drinking straws
  • Shishkabob skewers
  • Coffee cans

Protective supplies

  • Dropcloths
  • Tarps
  • Work aprons

Stuff to make into big new amazing things

  • Backpacks (frames make great giant puppet foundations)
  • Umbrellas (excellent for jellyfish, trees….)
  • Carts or wagons (to pull big critters on)
  • Wheels
  • Lumber
  • Clean carpet scraps
  • Lamp shades

Hardwares

  • Wood  saws
  • Sand paper
  • Nuts and Bolts
  • Washers
  • Drills and screws
  • Screwdrivers and Pliers
  • Awls
  • Hammers and Nails
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