May 4, 2023

Happy Star Wars Day!

 

May the Fourth be with you!

I miss the days in my classroom, when sometimes we would put aside work in order to be playful. I always told myself that folding origami together addressed listening skills…right? 

I folded these finger puppets last night for the two boys who live next door to us. They always bring us flowers on May Day, so it’s only fair to say, “May the Fourth be with you!” a few days later.

(Directions to fold them can be found here, should you have any Star Wars fans nearby.)

4 comments:

  1. Those puppets are darling! I will send the pattern to my grandchildren :-)

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    1. I’m so glad you find them charming, as I do, too. I hope your grandchildren enjoy them; the kids in my class always did. Did you see there is a series of books which accompany them? The first is The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, which is the only one I’ve read, but it is fun.

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  2. Well hello Meredith my old friend! What a wonderful surprise to find you again after so long. It's Dean, I hope you'll recall? We used to talk of Russian literature and of our times in Germany when there was still East & West. You also recommended 'Chess Story' to me by Stefan Zweig back in 2019, still one of the best chess books I've read. I too left Wordpress a year or two ago. I just got tired of all of the complexities and ads. I stopped blogging completely, but have recently started back. For the record, I find Blogger easier to navigate. Commenting isn't so hard if Wordpress folks will not always attempt to comment while logged into their Gravatar/Wordpress. If they will comment as their URL, they can simply put their name and URL and Voila' !!! I am all in favor of starting over and new beginnings. Good to talk with you again, Respectfully, Dean

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    1. Dean! I wondered where you’d been! So glad you found me here, how did that happen? Well, as you can see, I tired of Wordpress, too. They wouldn’t “let” me include the Mr. Linky widget for my Japanese literature challenges, they were constantly eliminating themes and making changes; it just all got tiresome.

      Thanks for addressing my question about commenting. Thanks for finding me here. I’m looking forward to carrying on our bookish conversations.

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