Crafts
Four times a year, I am asked by my publisher to write a newsletter for the kids who read our books. One of the standard features is a section on arts and crafts.
This started me reminiscing about my childhood days at summer camp. The summer I was eleven, I spent hours in the craft barn at Camp Woodstock. I made:
a hammered tin ashtray
a mosaic ashtray
a set of eight pressed cork cocktail coasters
and, the piece de resistance:
a pastel blue ceramic combination ashtray /cocktail holder.
In today’s newsletter, I showed kids how to make a homemade hacky-sack out of lentils and an unmatched sock. Then I told them if they ever wanted to start making some crafts that didn’t totally suck, they might want to consider encouraging their parents to smoke and drink.