She sees jewelry boxes in egg cartons, and she makes Christmas decorations from toilet rolls. Goele Neyens (58) spent seven years designing the craft pages for the now dying Doremi booklets. ‘Making ‘something’ from ‘nothing’, seeing the beauty in everything, keeping our youth away from the iPad – her merit is no small feat. “Through tinkering, children learn to persevere until something is ‘finished’.”
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She taught countless children to make crafts: “Some see their works of art go straight into the trash at home. Then my heart breaks”
