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| A dinosaur |
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| fish |
For the past few months Nachikaet has been
getting pretty crafty. From cereal box fighter planes and tissue roll hi tech
rockets, he has 'been there and done that'. On most days after school, he can be seen
cutting and pasting away furiously until
his room begins to resemble Santa's workshop and I begin to resemble (well not
exactly resemble but at least feel like) his elf! He was truly caught up in the
magical and highly addictive world of
DIY. So one week it would be raining cardboard dinosaurs ,planes and houses for
his huge population of aliens and animals; with cardboard cartons and boxes
borrowed from bewildered neighbors' and
scavenged from amused maintenance ladies.
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| card board plane |
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| elephant |
His most exhaustive ( for me that is) project to date has been the dreaded paper
mache project, where the dedicated crafter decided to make paper mache from
scratch. So began the soaking and priming of news papers,( my much coveted unread Sunday newspaper in my much coveted highly used saucepan). After soaking for about 24 hours the gooey mixture has to be apparently mixed with glue by hand unless you have magical stirring apparatus like the Art Attack series anchor . Since I didn't want to sacrifice a spoon from my kitchen, not having yet recovered from the 'borrowed' saucepan; I bravely volunteered to stir the mixture by hand. I sure did repent at leisure as I had to spend the better part of the evening trying to get my hand to its original five separate fingers state. Nachikaet politely pointed out that I had begun to resemble some unpronounceable creature with webbed hands.
Luckily for him his dad came home earlier that day!!
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| scarecrow, (yes u guessed right wearing my tshirt) |
I'm hoping that this is just a 'passing phase' as any more advanced Art attack crafting episodes just might give his 'non crafty' mother a heart attack!!!
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta_flour)
