Saturday was a tinkering day. At four of eight stations of the "heavenly workshop, the french day already for the 18th time. After the first christmas party was organized, christmas stars, greeting cards and walnub mice were made, and shopping bags were creatively painted. 122 children gave their "run sheets in a box to take part in the raffle that followed.
There was a big crowd right from the start at guido hafner’s show in the volksbank’s vault. After just over half an hour, 30 children were able to take home an angel they had printed themselves. This year the artist had created a very lively dancing angel as a linoleum print. "A madel halt", explains guido hafner, who had brought along angels from previous years for comparison to underline the diversity of the heavenly host.
Cuddly toy practice overflowed
Pediatrician bernward hinkes had an even more turbulent time in the town bookstore than in his practice. Here the crocodile with a broken leg sought medical help just as much as cold mice or dogs with sore paws. "In winter, this happens a lot, because the de-icing salt makes it difficult for them", the physician explained. A fish was brought in for a routine check-up and a rabbit changed its mind just before the medical check-up. "That happens, that’s why the rabbits are scared rabbits", the doctor explained, but took the precaution of putting a bandage and a sticking plaster into a. For all traps.
On the first floor, claudia gottstein’s team put curls of angels in the girls’ hair. Even the girls of kindergarten age remained quietly seated for the occasion. In between, on the second floor, children made a fold-out christmas card in the shape of a christmas tree. Placing the template on the colored paper, tracing and cutting it out, folding the card along a template, gluing in a saying and decorating the christmas tree with balls (glue dots) or punched-out stars required full attention. There were no limits to the imagination when it came to bag painting at the schick fashion store. Many children underlined their claim to ownership by labeling their bags with their names.
Snowmen and mice
In the service point of the french day in the tobacconist hocke in hauptstrabe, the task was to color templates. But not with any colors. "Is there black?", asked philipp. He needed them for the snowman, which was to be given shades of color.
"Just don’t skimp on the glue", was the order given to the children who made a paper star in the red cross store. Ten small shopping mares were placed on top of each other and taped down. Then the paper was cut to a point on the side where the horns normally open. Notches on the sides provided for individual decorations of the unfolded stars.
Members of the child protection association made walnut mice with the children in the kaiserpfalz clouds. The nutshells were glued to a cardboard base and provided with a wool thread as a tail. Whiskers completed the cute rodent, whose eyes were painted on with pens. It was so much fun that some children even made several mice. After all, there can never be enough gifts.