صندوق الفرجة : The Box of Wonders.

I made these ink illustrations for another project I worked on for the Children's Museum Jordan.

A few selected frames

 

The Box of Wonders (صندوق الفرجة) is one of the oldest Eid El Fiter "celebrational" activities, where frames of Arab traditional stories are illustrated on a roll of cloth or paper and are mounted on two rotating cylinders inside a rectangular closed box. The box has 3 or 4 small openings where children gather to watch the story frames roll while a storyteller tells the story and rolls the images into the holes. (did that sound too complicated? well, it's really just a box, 2 cylinders and a roll of paper with pictures) What I did was just the "pictures" part, so I illustrated the story. The box was then mounted and painted (with very bright red an green paint) and guess what the kids loved it!! look! :)