Designer Handbags

Sai Pi and I attended a workshop for young children yesterday at the National Museum called "I can be a fashion designer", held in conjunction with the Christian Lacroix exhibition.  Two guys from Toy Box Edu-tainment conducted the workshop and later brought us for a short tour of the exhibition.  They were really excellent; I have never seen better children entertainers (in an interactive "show") than these two guys.In the workshop, the children were exposed to "boring" designs and "exciting" designs and later given a chance to design their own handbag by drawing on and sticking scrap materials onto a cardboard "bag".  

When the children were done, they showed their creations to one of the guys from Toy Box Edu-tainment who proceeded to give each one a glowing critique.

The workshop was followed by a short tour of the Christian Lacroix exhibition after which we were to collect the handbags from outside the art lab.  Unfortunately forgetful me left with Sai Pi without the handbag.  Sigh.

So I promised Sai Pi that we would make our own designer handbags and here they are - made from paper plates with cords from paper bags for handles and decorated with scraps and stickers: