In these days of bad news, distressing headlines and brutal television reports that enter every home, we need to give answers, explanations to our children who, too soon, have inevitably come into contact with a harsh world. and difficult, even scary. IT’S BROTHERHOOD TIME – DIY FRIENDSHIP WATCH!

It will be children who will experience the world of tomorrow and it is therefore essential to start giving them the means to know how to understand it and, little by little, improve.

We must teach them that today’s violence can be quelled, that the resentment and hatred of the present can be overcome and that the future is still to be written and it will be them, the children, who dictate it: let’s give them the tools to do it in the way improve!

Starting from the little things, like a simple chore to do at home and which, in addition to decorating the bedroom, can teach the fundamental value of brotherhood and solidarity.

 YOU NEED:

• 1 hard cardboard disc
• colored tempera
• “face colors” cards
• 1 clock mechanism
• pencil
• felt tip pen
• scissors
• glue
• Scotch tape
• cutter

REALIZATION:

Have your child’s hand rest on the “face color” cards: the older ones will already be able to trace the outline of their fingers by themselves, the little ones will need your help.

Draw 12 little hands on cards of different shades: it will be a simple and concrete way to show the child that, in the world, there are many little hands like his… and of different colors!

Cut out the various shapes.

Now take the cardboard disc and, in the center, draw a square measuring 5.5 x 5.5 cm, then cut it out to obtain a hole, where you will insert the clock mechanism. The cardboard is quite thick, so it is recommended that an adult cut it with a cutter.

Choose the color of the gouache you prefer (or that best matches the bedroom) and paint the whole disk; then let it dry.

Fit the mechanism inside the colored disc and secure it on the back with adhesive tape.

At this point, glue on the perimeter of the disc all the shapes of the little hands you have cut out, alternating the colors, as if to create a crown of fingers.

On each palm, then write the numbers from 1 to 12, corresponding to the hours that the hands will indicate.

Your child will thus have created a beautiful clock for his bedroom and, with the passage of time (literally!), He will see how the festive union of all those hands, so different in color and yet so similar, will help to build his own. future.