I've been working with some of my boys on a project that I'd wanted to do for years. In our Recreation Therapy Group, we had Mississippi Gourds shipped to us all covered in beautiful stinky Mississippi mud.
After scrubbing them down, which isn't the funnest task with 8 twelve year old hyperactive and not-wanting-to-take-turns boys, they were all prepared. We processed a lot how important it is to do our best in the beginning to prepare for the best outcomes in life.
The gourds seemed really happy chillin with each other waiting for us to return the next week to continue to the next step.
The biggest mistake we made was sitting in a confined, non-ventillated room, when we cut open the gourds. As adults we never considered the gourds would be full of dried up gourd dust that was a bit moldy that immediately found it's way into all of our lungs... dang, we coughed for days!
We cleaned them up, cut off the other top, and began the design process. We all had to choose Native American symbols that represented and applied to something we were trying to become. After burning in the symbols, we cut up the grody rawhide, and laced it onto the top of the drum. And BOOYAH, we had drums!
After scrubbing them down, which isn't the funnest task with 8 twelve year old hyperactive and not-wanting-to-take-turns boys, they were all prepared. We processed a lot how important it is to do our best in the beginning to prepare for the best outcomes in life.
The gourds seemed really happy chillin with each other waiting for us to return the next week to continue to the next step.
The biggest mistake we made was sitting in a confined, non-ventillated room, when we cut open the gourds. As adults we never considered the gourds would be full of dried up gourd dust that was a bit moldy that immediately found it's way into all of our lungs... dang, we coughed for days!
We cleaned them up, cut off the other top, and began the design process. We all had to choose Native American symbols that represented and applied to something we were trying to become. After burning in the symbols, we cut up the grody rawhide, and laced it onto the top of the drum. And BOOYAH, we had drums! 
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