Monday, 1 September 2008

Crafts & English Teaching

We split the kids into two groups - one to go and do crafts and the other to learn English, and then after about 30 minutes, they would swap activites.

I stayed with the craft section. The craft today was decorating picture frames. And they seemed to really enjoy this activity. They put all their effort in to making them really nice, making sure the paint wasn't sloppy and that they had the right decorations to put on them.

Some of the adults came and joined in with the crafts as well, this was really nice to see. To me, they were just like big kids and were enjoying painting and decorating their frames. One man spent about 40 minutes making sure his was just perfect. I think the fact that the could do something like this and then take it home meant a lot to them.

One women came up to one of the team members later, with the frames her kids made and they contained photos of the kids in their best clothes. She was very proud of the frames and when I heard this story it brough a tear to my eyes, because this was the only frames they had ever had.







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