Summer school is here! Every day we have a fun, exciting and unique activity for our toddlers, kids and munchkins alike. Talk about unique, how about painting your own Hakata doll!
Today, we hopped into a taxi, shot across town and piled into a shop that sells, displays and offers painting lessons to those interested in Hakata dolls (which are beautifully painted ceramics that come in many forms, famous in Hakata).
The kids got to choose what they wanted to paint (funny enough, not a single doll between them). I saw some roosters, monkeys, dogs and a boar amongst the choices. After a brief overview of the rules, they got to painting. Silence. Everyone was concentrating on choosing their colors, washing their brushes, mixing and painting their ‘dolls’ they worked without a peep. The results were wonderfully original statuettes any parent would be proud to display
