Time for Craft

One of the great way to bound is through crafting! Put away the demand of our daily commitment, take time out to sit down with our loved ones and enjoy the therapeutic experience of creating a masterpiece together. This is a time to smell the flowers! It's encouraging to see more and more dad attending this Parent-Child Craftogether workshop with their kid at a neighbourhood family service centre. Like in any relationship, a visual & tactile activity will stimulate and build bond. As they work together towards a common direction, team spirit is brought to another level.

Just received a leaflet from the school to participate in a dragon puppet making for the upcoming Mid Autumn Festival celebration 中秋节. As the lantern making competition held at Chinatown Point has been put on halt, I decided to guide on this project. Basically, the instructions given by the school to make this puppet is very simple. If we were to follow it exactly, I'm sure 80% of the dragons will look almost alike. Really, it is not so much of whether this puppet we made will win in the competition a not, it is the passion in me to make a difference in every project I committed doing. We had a brainstorm session before we put everything in place. But, I got to really thank myself for the huge collections of recycled materials. If all these are not within reach, what magic can I perform? Golden & silver foil ice-cream wrappers, fresh milk carton box, bottle caps, polyfoam fruit net (the pink dragon body) etc.; all these are simply wastes that end up in the b...