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Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:49 am
by there
It's something I was taught as a child. It's about the vibration of breath blown across the blade of grass which is stretched and held lengthwise between cupped palms. The breath is almost like a finger on a guitar string. The blade of grass vibrates from the breath crossing it. The cupped hands make the vibration resonate.

Pulling up a long enough blade of grass... ready... squeeeeak!!!!!

edited 1x for spelling --there

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 3:37 am
by Fleur
Very much good fun to hear there

I'm making a long daisy chain. Would anyone like to join me? I'll show you how to split thick stems to make a hole to pass next flower through (use a thumb nail or little knife)

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:31 am
by Booklover
I love making daisy chains I will join you we can make daisy crowns.

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:07 am
by Fleur
What a lovely thing to have you with me making daisy crowns and to make the castle and playground pretty

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:34 pm
by coconuts
Oh I want to make Daisy chains I never knew how to do this. I will watch you for a minuye and start trying it out. I'm so excited to learn all these cool new tricks

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:51 pm
by there
daisy chains---Oo, I want to learn ,too.

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 3:13 pm
by Fleur
Hi everyone

What I was thinking about first was those daisies with thick fleshy stems

The daisies with thin stems need twisting around sort of like wire

We can "cheat" by using thin string to hold flowers in place. Hold the stems gently so they don't break, twist one stem around another until 3-4 are in a line, before running out of the first stem. Then tie string just tightly enough to stay in place, leaving a tail about the length of a stem and wind string a few times in a spiral, then use string and more daisy stems together to twist until long enough to make circle , cut string a stem's length to then tie to the first tail




For grown up people who want to make pretty bunches, a help is the thin wire inside some grocery closures (called twist ties in Australia) to keep stems in place

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:30 am
by there
Fleur,
thanks fir directions! Think I'll opt for the twist ties method :)

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:36 pm
by Booklover
I’m going to play in the roundabout for a bit. I love going round and round and laying back watching everything spin pass

Re: Playground for littles

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:10 am
by coconuts
I finished my Daisy necklace. I'm gonna go push booklover around
on the roundabout and hop on with her.

Hehehehe wweeeeeee