Our foster children usually use their notebook pages to write a letter. And mostly they put letters in an ordinary envelops sold in a market. We don’t see a significant custom to write letters among Cambodian people, but envelops are commonly used for more people. On the other hand a few make envelopes by hand with notebook papers or copy papers. And not surprisingly, a few others hand their letters to us without envelopes.
We can make an envelope by folding a piece of paper or by cutting and pasting. When we make an outline to create something by cutting, folding and pasting, we take glue tabs into account. Since we were small, glue tabs were always there in papercraft templates.
I just noticed that children here don’t prepare glue tabs when they make envelopes. Certainly this is not strange when we consider various differences of the environments where they and we have grown up. Depending on what they have at home, a few children directly paste paper edges together with glue and the others use a stapler.
Staplers are not common, by the way. Such a child who staples papers seems to borrow one from a teacher at school.
Not only that, people usually seem not to keep scissors for regular use though one or two may be kept for sewing or cooking purpose. They can cut things by their teeth or tore things with something pointed. I was surprised to hear that college students who had moved out from their homes in provinces to start living in a town didn’t have their own scissors.
Including using scissors, some nations are concerned preschoolers abilities. An opportunity to enjoy papercrafts… I want to provide such an opportunity with these local children as soon as possible.
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