Let’s stop to think for a moment about an essential part of this project: a pipe cleaner.
Nowadays, smoking pipes is increasingly rare, so the furry lengths of wire designed to clean them should be one of those almost obsolete objects such as a typewriter, cassette tape or answering machine.
Yet pipe cleaners have managed to survive as a favourite material for art teachers everywhere.
What’s more, there’s probably no better way to use them than by twisting one round a stick, poking the ends through a paper cup, and helping 1-3 students transform this simple machine into a cute, dancing puppet.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this Pedagogische Angebot activity was a big hit with kids from Rubin and Amethyst classes, who used their imagination and creative talent to produce some beautiful pieces of work.
Some things really are timeless.
