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I have always been wanting to learn how to make knots and then teach my eldest son as I think it’s a good life skill to learn. My eldest son is 10 years old now, but I have always been procrastinating. Just two days ago, I bumped into a blog post, which is about an artist, Windy Chien, learning and making a new knot everyday in 2016. It’s called “The Year of Knots”, and a book about all the knots will be published soon too.
This really inspired me to plan a new challenge for myself and my eldest son. I plan to learn and make a new knot everyday together with him. I think this will be a fun and interesting challenge for us, and we will surely have good bonding time learning and making knots together too. We have just made our first knot – Doughnut Knot. It’s quite easy, and I think it’s a nice and neat way to keep any strings in good order. My son watched the video tutorial and then taught me how to make it. It’s also a good way to let my son learn to make and learn to teach too.
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Question of
Do you like making knots?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Would you challenge yourself to make a knot everyday?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Would you challenge yourself to make a knot everyday?
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Yes, it’s interesting!
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No, it’s boring!
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I don’t have time for it.
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Strong interest and willingness that will bring success in completing challenges, may you and your son succeed through it well!
Yes, I agree with you. I really need to build my will power and be persistent. We learned two or three knots, then we stopped. It’s actually I didn’t carry on working on it.
It looks very interesting and very good for your son. By doing so, he will develop his skills.
Yes, I found it interesting as well. Actually I wanted to teach him tying the knots since he was young, as I think it’s a good life skill to be learned. I didn’t spend time learning how to do so, and hence I didn’t teach my son. 😛
Sounds like something different to do.
I think it’s something good and useful for kids to learn. Perhaps it’s good for me to learn too. There are some knots that are good to be used in our daily life. 🙂
I hope your project encounters plenty of hitches! (For the uninitiated, that is not an unkind remark – look it up!)
We just stopped learning new knots after a few. I should resume learning again. 🙂
It’s nice, how to make the round shape knot like this one?
Sorry for my late reply.
That’s called doughnut knot. Now I always use this method to keep my strings.
Here’s the video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtbbTLFLtak
something like in crochet…
It made me remember that I made something like this as a keychain.
yup… and this the one that’s quite handy. other than the girls’ scout thing
Yes,we just loved to do it and another type is the dragonfly type.
I made the dragonfly knots when I was in school. Perhaps it’s time to teach my kids now. 🙂
It’s good to have our children at an early age learn different skills.
Sharon, it’s true, it’s good to get the children do more D.I.Y rather than homework.
Yes, I agree with you all. I was brought up to be more focus on the academic studies, but I was really lacking of life skills, not to say DIY. It’s really good to let the kids learn how to do things by their hands and it helps to build their creativity and confidence as well.
I remembered the dragonfly.