Happiness is in little things

Happiness is for sale! Really! From this month on, you can buy happiness in a little bag at the TCDF Eco-Logic shop, Art Eco. The special need students of the TCDF Special School worked really hard on the production of ‘happiness-bags’ the last few months.

A hapinessbag is a small bag with a number of symbolic objects in it. It’s a good luck charm you give to people you car for, something to remember you by.

Nong Eef, Nong Dju, Nong Ta, Nong Bas worked really hard to make these happiness bags. And the result is wonderful!

First they printed a picture on the small cotton bag. There is a choice of a bag with a water buffalo (symbol of strength) or a lady bug (symbol of good luck).

After printing the bags the students worked on the objects that should go in the bags:

• They painted small stones as a symbol for ‘building on a bright future’.
• They took some seeds and laminated them as a symbol for ‘growth’ and ‘development’.
• They wrote a wish on gold and silver paper in English and Thai, representing all children with the Thai Child Development Foundation.
• And the last object is a small Buddh image. Symbol of peace of mind and Thailand.

After all these preparation they had to work on packing. Very concentrated work!

• Place all objects, one of each, in the happiness bag.
• Place the bag in a plastic bag
• Make a label, stamp it and attach it to the plastic bag.

After all this they brought the bags to the shop and displayed them there: ready to sale!