I'm going to be sharing with you what my students did today, and I am so happy. We're about to start the school examination, so they had to bring their handcraft. Every student is expected to go home and make something by himself or herself and bring it to school.
And yes, I remember back then when I was in school, many years ago, and I can still remember it. Whenever we were told to bring handcraft, what I would do was go and make a broom from the leaves of a palm tree. Yes, I would remove the leaves from palm trees. I would cut them, remove the leaves, leaving the leavelets, and dry them up to make a broom.
But these children did something different. Most of them, even though this is the first set of students who brought their handcraft, a lot more handcraft will be coming in soon, brought paper plates and spoons, and paper bowls.
And I called one of them and asked her how she did it, and she explained it to me. Maybe one of these days, I'm going to make one and also show the steps. But for now, I'm just happy with what they can do at their age. They're able to do it. It's actually a good thing.
The girl told me that I'm supposed to find a lot of paper and cut it off with my hands into smaller particles, and then I'll soak it in water. After about 10 minutes, I'm going to add starch to it. After I add starch to it, then I'm going to pick anything that I want to make, and then I'll get to remove the papers from the water and arrange them, covering the object.
But before I do it, I'm going to place leather so that, at the end of the day, when it's dry, I can remove my paper craft without any problem. The starch is to keep the paper together.
I'm going to be trying it one of these days, and I hope I'll be good at it.
Image are taken by me using infinix hot 60i
