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Wanting one. Making one.

12 November 2007No Comment

Strongly wanting what other people have (or what the SHOP sells!) is part of Anya’s daily requests these past few months.

And apparently, this is pretty common amongst grown-ups in general too, huh? Being sinful human beings and all.

Wanting to own something that we actually don’t ‘need’, not feeling content with what we currently have, or secretly envying others who seem to have ‘more’.

Ah. Kids somehow have their own ways of reminding us of things that WE ourselves need to change, don’t they?

Well. ANYWAY.

Other than needing to so frequently explain why there are things that she CAN and CANNOT have, fortunately there are things that she WANTS and we can try to MAKE them. Ourselves.

She saw her friend’s hand-made paper fan yesterday and wanted what she had. She talked about it so much and so we made one today!

What we used:

>> Thick carton

>> Coloured paper to decorate the fan

>> Scissors, glue, masking tape

>> Disposable wooden chopsticks (ones you get from takeaways) as the handle

As she requested, I cut a heart-shaped carton for her and she started cutting out her coloured paper (to whatever shapes she liked) and glued them onto the thick carton.

We then stuck the chopsticks at the back of the fan with a masking tape.

And that’s it!

It was a very simple paper fan, really. But she’s very happy with it (and stopped wanting one afterwards too!).

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