02.21.07

Eight boys, small room, and hammers on metal stamps…..

Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 4:49 pm by Meg

You get the picture.

Last night a good friend asked me to do my leatherworking workshop for her son’s weblo (I think that’s how you spell it) cub-scout troop. (Excuse me if I don’t have all that right, I’m not ‘into’ boy-scouts for so many reasons, so I’ve never had to try to understand whats-what. - whatever they’re called, they were 9 and 10 yrs. old.)

Now, while I may not be fond of the boy-scouts, T is a good friend and I like introducing kids to leatherwork. It’s a great activity for any kids. They can be creative and active at the same time, and while they can ‘ruin’ their individual projects, they’d have trouble really hurting my tools. (though I’m still waiting for the hammer through a window trick) And how many things are there that you can tell boys (especially) ‘hit away to your heart’s content’? And when they are done, they get something useful that they can hold up and share.

So, there we are in a small room with 8 boys, T, a few parents that stuck around, Girl and T’s middle son, D (a good friend of Boy), (I roped Girl and D into helping me because they’ve been to more than a few of these), and I.

And those boys bounced. There’s no other way to describe it. They had a good time. They made some beautiful wallets and neckerchief slides (though more time would have been helpful - note to self), but they bounced. Off each other, off D, off the walls…..The energy level was high.

But it was interesting for me. You see T’s youngest boy is often the midst of the ‘high energy’ in our homeschool group. Sometimes when they are here, Hubby will come out afterwards looking kind of dazed asking how anything gets done. And he was the calmest, best focused one there!

All the other boys go to public school - I can’t imagine trying to hold their attention all day.

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