Polycutting

Volunteering at the school again this afternoon. I was supposed to be starting on stick chairs, but I changed tack and we did some polystyrene things to be cast into aluminium some time in the winter. I haven't had time to cut any sticks for chairs. I did a couple of little animals to show the kids some ways of using the knife to carve the material. They seemed to uderstand, but got frustrated when it didn't go as smoothly for them. Perhaps demonstrations are not so useful when there is no time for the learning curve to take shape and push frustration aside. These classes often make me wonder when these children will have a time in their lives to learn to use their appendages to good purpose, or at least for more than pushing buttons.