Life in Gaza: Homemade Wrapper Flowers
Our Qur’an teacher’s 76-year-old mother gave us this beautiful flower arrangement that she makes by hand. The shiny blue wrappers are the foils found inside cigarette boxes. She even showed my girls and I how she rolls the petals (folded blue wrapper) around an air freshener bottle, takes string and winds it around the foil to make the folds and dents in each petal. The center pieces of the flower are made from either candy wrappers or chip bags. She has various wires to attach the center piece and make its stem. Then she finds anything green–green tape, green wrappers, etc. to wrap the wired stem.
It was such a pleasure to watch her make this, because she was making dhikr, making du’a for us, or reciting Qur’an the whole time. This was the first time she showed us these flowers, but the other times we were at the masjid with her during our weekly lectures. She knits as she listens. MashaAllah.
The weekly lectures are led by two of her daughters: our Qur’an teacher and one of her sisters.
Ya Rabb, please bless the Zaytunnia family handsomely in this dunya (life on Earth) and the akhira (hereafter). Ameen.
After this day, we’ve been collecting all the cousins’ candy wrappers and chip bags. Yes, sadly to say–they eat TOO much of both. MashaAllah.
If you have cool recycled art projects to share, please comment, and email pictures to contact<at>americanmuslimmom.com for us to post. If you have an instructional video, that’d be even better. Please link to us, InshaAllah.
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