Children make jewelry for March Break
Children at Westville Library fastened together some pretty solid bracelets Tuesday from magazine shards and necklaces using painted metal washer rings.
Little Lindsay Keenan and her neighbour Brier Fraser, both from Westville, fastened together their trinkets under their mothers’ watchful eyes, helped along by the library’s children’s programming clerk, Marion MacBeth.
“We’re just trying to have some fun things to do on March Break and it’s good to recycle things. We recycle books, we can recycle other articles, so that’s what we’re up to today,” said MacBeth.
Keenan told The News that she was making necklaces and bracelets, which she was seen doing by fastening magazine fragments onto an elastic cord.
The magazine scraps were tightly glued together to form a bracelet.
“I really enjoy this,” said Keenan.
The children’s mothers both appreciated a social event over March Break that got kids out of the house and away from the TV screens.
A number of activities for children are running locally, such as the medieval castle-themed fun week being hosted by the Museum of Industry in Stellarton.
There, children and families can dress up in armour and enjoy some mock jousting, run through a dungeon maze, or test out model catapults among other things to see and do.
“You have to keep them busy,” said Krista Chisholm, Brier Fraser’s mother.
For Keenan’s mother, Catherine, the arts and crafts on offer were different from those she enjoyed as a school student in the 1980s.
Back then, children made sculptures out of Play-Doh or made collages using glue.