How to make a gun with a hankie
Ready to check the vividness of your imagination and capacity to abstract? Lets B(grin - r).
Daddy, do you know how to make a gun with an hankie?
With a hankie? No way…
OK, here, take a hankie, hold it like this, fold, fold, fold, cush, cush, look
Oh, I see. Great. If you hold it that way, it does look like a gun that I fire with my cold. Nice abstraction and good imagination. Where did you learn that one kiddo?
From school pa. Wait, do you know how to make a ship with an hanky?
Ship? No, but why don’t you show me
Here we go, flutter, fold, fold, fold and presto
Jeez, great. I could imagine that abstraction to be a ship. Good job…
Now dad, do you know how to make a train? Let me show you; flutter, flutter, kosh, kosh, fold, kosh, here, take a look
Er, that is a train? You don’t mean that blue engine at the back don’t you? The hankie thing is now a train? The one that runs on rails?
Yes pa, it is a long train with engine and carriages connected…look here, can’t you see the headlights?
OK, um, I am a bit short of practice, alright, now what?
Do you know how to make a bus? a bit difficult, but wait, flutter, flutter, fold, kosh, fluff, fold, fluff, here it is
Now now, this is getting a bit too abstract my dear.
Come on pa, don’t you see, this is where the driver sits; this is where we sit; and these are the wheels and it goes this way…
Wait wait; wheels? where do you see the wheels dear? (flutter, flutter, fold, swipe, fold) Hey, answer me kid; what are you doing now? (flutter flutter fluff, fold, fold….) Alright now what is this? A camera? A cathedral?
Noooo Dad, don’t you know anything? It is just a neatly folded hanky.
