The football fever seems to have got to practically everyone. I had jokingly mentioned to my daughter about the time (1986) when my cousins and I were so football crazy that we even started making flags in anticipation of some of the games (see my blog entry on June 11, 2010 titled “Gooooooaaaal !!’ for details)
My daughter wanted to know the whole story and then wanted to make flags for this world cup. This weekend we proceeded to do exactly that. Truth be told even I was excited to participate in this activity.
Wifey cut down some branches from the ‘Muringa’ tree . The stouter twigs among them were our flag poles. She also covered the chosen twigs with cello-tape. The leaves of course were not wasted as they were cooked for our dinner curry on Saturday night.. I drew the outlines of the flags on A4 size paper. Nandu and her acha-chan (grand father) did the honours of painting (colouring) the flags.
The whole thing got Nandu excited. I am hoping that I can use these tactics to get her interested in other sports as well so that she will watch with me (or at least let me watch in peace)!
Wonder if I can do something similar for F1?!!? Maybe next weekend’s project could be painting the Red Bulls and Mclarens ?
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