Bracelet making (and other recent photos)

When I lead at WEC summer camp last year, one of my 11 year old campers called Tunu taught me how to make friendship bracelet type things, and I've made a few since then.
Before I came, I thought it would be a good idea to buy some thread to take with me to teach the kids how to make them too.

I'm so glad I did, they loved it. I got about six of the older girls around a table to make them, and by the end we had about 25 kids round the table all making them.

It was surprisingly hard to teach them though, it's not too hard but they were so keen to get started they didn't focus on my teaching of the method and just started as soon as they could.

This resulted in a constant hum of "Rachael" "Rachael can you come" "Rachael is this right?" (no) "Rachael can you please help me" in which I would circulate the table checking everyone's bracelets which looked nothing like the demo (it was their first time) and nodding in approval telling them it was great, or repeatedly showing them the right way to do it (all whilst Jackson is clinging onto my back) but they all enjoyed it, sang along to their favourite songs ("Waka waka" "shine" "Might to Save") and made some kind of bracelet, pattern or not, and that's the main thing :-)

Demo photo of bracelet (modelled by Will Dent)

Jackson xxx

 

Africans are fascinated by white people hair! The kids just love stroking and playng and plaiting my hair, sometimes there's 5 of them around me plaiting different parts haha.

Breakfast with Jeff and Blessing