They
had a beautiful display of folded paper Christmas things. I want to learn to make all of them!
In our
two hour workshop, we learned to make three things – a Christmas tree with snow,
a Santa, and a box. We each received a packet of supplies.
The
first was the tree, made up of three parts of green tree and a brown base, and
put together with glue stick. It was not
so difficult.
Next
was Santa San, which had more folds, so was a bit more difficult, but I was
still able to do it. The teacher and the Japanese participants at our table
must have thought I couldn’t follow along or couldn’t understand what to do
because they kept trying to take my paper and do the folding (sometimes not
folding it as straight as I would have). I wanted to do it myself, but didn’t want
to be rude.
The
third project was a little box. I had
done something like this out of old cards years ago, but had forgotten how to
do it. These are very cute and I want to
make more of them.
One
woman at our table was from Malaysia, but most of the other participants were
Japanese. There was a group of
children who were quicker at this than the adults.
It was
a fun workshop! Maybe we’ll make some
more of these at home. Or maybe I will make more and Ted will look at them. (Really, he did very well with it!)
2 comments:
The ever helpful Japanese... kind but... I know how you must have felt.
Anyway, you have some wonderful paper craft for display. This will be easy to store for next year, and the forest and the Santa population, as well as the mountain of gift boxes can grow each year.
How cute!! Looks like a really fun workshop!
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