Syrian woman carries out educational project to enhance children’s creative skills

Damascus, (ST) – The Young Syrian woman Yusr Al-Safadi has succeeded in implementing her own educational project that aims at helping children know how to make their own dolls.

With the aim of promoting her project, Al-Safadi uses social media to display hand-made dolls that she designs. She targets children who want to learn how to make their dolls.

 Al-Safadi told Syria Times e-news-paper that she launched the project two and a half years ago based on the need to help children learn new skills through playing, which is a lovely way to educate children.

Al- Safadi succeeded in teaching the children the mechanism of designing the dolls while having fun, thereby strengthening children’s personality and helping them acquire new skills.

She pointed out that the idea of the project is based on helping children design their own dolls by securing the necessary tools, including the fabrics, accessories, wool or cotton threads, needles and the body of a hand-made sewn doll, and putting them inside a box. She also attaches simplified explanation about th work steps on the box that she gives to the children who want to learn.

Al-Safadi indicated to Syria Times that the dolls she has made are used for an educational purpose and that the children are the ones who will make their own doll by themselves.

“I collect everything that the child needs in a box so that he/she can make his/her own doll step by step,” she explained.

Al-Safadi added that the aim of her project is to help the child discover his potential and talents, teach him new skills such as sewing, color coordination, stimulate visual abilities, motion skills and creative ideas, enhance the child’s self-confidence to complete his doll with his own hand and invest his spare time in useful and enjoyable things.

Regarding the materials she uses in making dolls, Al-Safadi explained that they are natural, safe and environment- friendly. They include a sewn cloth doll, cotton fabrics, felt, satin ribbons, lace, decorative accessories, threads and wool to make the doll’s hair, paper and a pen to draw the face.

Al-Safadi concluded her statement to Syria Times by saying: “Every person has a talent, either he discovers it and invests in it properly, so it returns to him with material benefit and happiness, or he neglects it so it disappears. Therefore, every person must work to develop his talent to achieve his desired goals”.

She pointed out that she is working hard to make her project available to as many children as possible with the aim of developing their talents and providing safe entertainment for him.

Reported and Photos by: Raghda Sawas