The children’s braiding courses at the town of Ortenberg’s holiday games are popular. For the first part, braiding with wicker, 11 children came together.
Everything was prepared when the children, ages 6 to 11, arrived around 9:00 a.m. All seats were quickly taken and, depending on their desire, mood or ability, each participant took an already finished floor or just the plywood board to insert the stands themselves.
Even the youngest basket-making apprentices quickly figured out how to weave, so it was just a matter of supplying everyone with the colorful wicker threads and helping out here and there.
“Katja” or “Can you take a look” or even “I need help” made many a drop of sweat appear. Nevertheless, it was nice to see how the children weaved their own baskets almost independently. The final rear sight was once again done by a professional, but each basket is unique and all children can rightly be proud of their results.
We were all distracted again and again by a pair of sparrows nesting in a nesting box above our heads. The adult birds did not allow themselves to be disturbed in any way and diligently fed their young. And they always looked curiously out of the entrance hole and closely followed everything that was going on under their house.
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