I was scouting around for some cloth bags to hold the suncatchers that we bought for Vera’s birthday party and found some at Artfriend. Along with fabric markers!

At first, I thought it’d be fun to decorate the bags with Vera. Then I thought it would be nice to have her friends decorate their bags themselves. After consulting with her teachers, we decided that only the older kids should do it as some of the younger ones may find it too hard. Plus we only had about half an hour for the celebration, so we decided to play it safe.

Which meant that I had to decorate about 10 bags by myself, I mean…with Vera helping of course. I got out the fabric markers and started to draw on one bag. I got Vera to help with simple strokes, such as dotting the raindrops or sun rays. We also drew a rainbow together, with me guiding her hand. But after a while, she got tired of it, so I continued drawing myself.

It was rather therapeutic if you ask me! I felt like a child again. (Hah, looking at my drawings you would think that I’m still one.)

Here are the bags hanging out to dry.

Here are my favourites…

HOPE.

LOVE and JOY.

I must say they turned out quite nicely. I guess you can’t go too wrong with the cheery bright colours. After the ink was dry, I just had to iron the back of the bag to make the colours stick on well. Hopefully, they don’t wash out too easily.

I hope the kids like the bags! May they grow to know the love, joy, and hope that only God can bring into their lives…