He had a Kris Kringle at school and picked a girl's name out of the hat. He decided he'd like to make her a ring..."Please mum?" It had to be in silver, of course, and I wasn't allowed to tell anybody what he was doing. God forbid if word got out at school that he was making this girl a ring!I took this photo but he quickly grabbed my torque bangle so he couldn't be seen working on it.
Without giving away names, he wanted to make a ring with a V. So I got some wire and with a bit of planishing, solder and polishing, this is what we came up with:
I would have liked him to engrave a line to make the the ring look more of a V than a Y but he was happy with his design and that was that. It was a great success and everyone guessed he'd made it, hence the cone of silence over the project has been lifted.
He then went on to make his teacher a pendant! Lucky teacher...I was welling up at the thought and seeing his determination to maker her something special was a reflection of his admiration.
I was really pleased that my workshop had got at least one child thinking outside the box and doing something a little different. Last year it was the turn of my daughter and her Market experience (Stuck). All this makes The Laundry about so much more than me. Another proud mum moment!
6 comments:
Hello Suzanne,
I love this story, the commitment shown by your Son and your teaching qualities and enthusiasm for bringing on the knowledge. My oldest Son is 3years old now so I hope to find him as creative and interested as yours in a couple of years.
Best regards,
Barbera, The Netherlands
Nice Story… Feel a bit more inspired today, Thanks
Lovely story! I hope my niece will want to work at the bench soon :)
Hey!! great job!! on the teaching end and the doing end. I think the process is the key to making little self-propelled craftsmen. My daughters also want to jump into the making part before the thinking and designing part too. I think most of my students do too.
The ring looks great, and you're getting share a bit of the magic with your son. Awesome!!
I've been traveling for the past year because My 11 year old daughter is in Billy Elliot the Musical National Tour, along I took my one and half year old baby boy Bryan with me, he's been on tour ever since he's three month old.
Start a month ago, I think Bryan's old enough to leave me some hands free time so I brought some tools with me. I started with some personalized pieces I designed for the Billy Elliot cast members using only Sterling silver, this way it's easy for work while traveling. So there's lots of hammering. Bryan would sit on my lap with me hold my hand while I hold the hammer. some times I caught him climbing on my chair, grabing my hammer and give my soldering board strong solid blows, which was nothing like a baby playing with toy tool set... I can see soon he will be making rings for girls and teachers too
HIs after school care teacher is deserved of a ring too tell him....
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