Personal Narrative: How To Make Own Personalized Prope

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In class, we had this little fun activity either sewing or making a basket or making a prop. Since I know how to sew, I decide to join an activity, making a prop, which I have never done before.
Instruction and materials were given by professor and each of us grabbed different colors and started making own personalized prop. While after start making one, I wanted to see how other doing so I looked around and realized, even though materials were limited and same instruction was given by, we are all doing differently; colors, patterns and firmness. From there, I could realize once again that we all think different and like different things. I grabbed 2 different colors for this art project, yellow, black and white. Yellow is my favorite color and I wanted this prop to be bright. Black because there were lots of black tights and I thought it would match with my yellow. Then I chose white because it would blend well with other two. Beginning of the activity I did not notice that the tides have levels of tightness. I picked different tightness tides and it made my prop unpredictable. So I untied and stitched to loose ones. With tight ones I was having a hard time putting on each end, it required strong
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It looks very simple art project, but when I tried I realized it is very useful and interesting. This can be used for various ranges of patients because it is not dangerous nor too complicated. I can use this as early as 5 year old kids and old as 80 year old, who is willing to try. With young group I can work with their creativity, boost their motor skills, fine motor skills. And see how they are choosing colors and by asking them why they chose each color, I can find their preferences and sense of

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