Human hands are like small children. They want to try things. They want to do things themselves. The modern man has become accustomed to buying ready packaged food, clothes and shelves that need at most three turns with a screwdriver to fasten.
However, there are occasions when we rediscover the joy of being handy. Hands who wake up to discover that their function is not only to dive down on a keyboard or to hold on to the railing on a bus in order for the rest of the body not to fall into the fellow passengers. The hands are the body's best tools. We have cells that are made to feel things. The fingers are triple layer of cells. We’re supposed to know, do and create.
So screw buying things ready-made things. Do it yourself instead.
In order to get your fingers going, you can knead clay. Here are tips on what you can make with it:
- Figures in a puppet show.
- Models of furniture before moving or rearranging your apartment
- Outline a house in 3D
- Scenarios for an animated short film
- Bowls, vases or mugs
Recipe:
4 dl flour
3 dl salt
2 tablespoons of alum (available at the pharmacy)
3 tablespoons cooking oil
5 dl boiling water
caramel color
Required time:
1 hour or less
Pros:
You do it yourself instead of buying ready-made concepts. It’s also free of the toxins and crap that one finds in the store-bought kind.
