Nagano- It was dinner time when I noticed that the two younger kids Ricah and Julie were not on their chairs. And only at that time that I saw them they were pulling a bag from each other to get some crafts they have inside.
To my surprise they were competing to be the first one to grab and pull their own craft to present to us their dolls they crafted in their kindergarten school.
Julie the youngest, was crying not to have her own first. But Ricah was careful to took her twin dolls to show it to us during our dinner time.
Japanese have a special day for the dolls, cultured on their Japanese kimono images for both man or woman, boy or girl.
The kids used cartolina, and some color paper to craft the doll-body. For the head, they used a flesh painted cartolina molded as a head and drawn with a face. They put some threads and ribbon for the hair. The younger Julie used a paper cup for the body. A drawn head was cut and pasted to the upside down paper-cup to structure the doll figure.
At that young age, the arts and craftsmanship of the Japanese kids are given a nice chance to develop. I could see that the crying and struggle of the 2 girls to show their own work is already a sign that they claim to have reached something they are proud of, a level of artwork.
Congratulations to this nice culture of Japan.
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