This is a warm and intelligent picture. The 70-year-old grandfather and the 4-year-old grandson, who were almost 70 years old, were connected to two generations of childhood through the “homemade toys”。
It's not just because it can play, it's because it's got three magic treasures
The romance of time: in the age of the proliferation of electronics, grandpa would like to spend the afternoon, even days, making a toy for his grandson with wood, cloth, plastic bottles or old boxes. The patience of this slow work is in itself the most valuable gift。
Age wisdom: 70-year-old grandpa has the old generation's best work — cutting wood gyro, sewing sandbags, using bamboo poles as a water gun and swinging old tyres. These toys do not have a sound light, but they need children to do it, to think, to run, to jump。
A unique mark: grandpa made a toy, only one in the world. There may also be little arrows painted by grandpa with pencils, or crooked buttons sewn with thick cloth. This sense of “exclusiveity” cannot be given by any expensive lego。
A common grandpa homemade toy
(b) wood carts: a small car that can pull soil and pull fruit with used wooden boards and four axes bearing wheels. Four-year-olds like to drag it around the yard。
Pygmy man/tomph: with bamboo poles or wooden sticks, a small person can “fight”. It's a memory of grandpa's childhood, and it's a novel experience for grandchildren。
Shafts/spouses: cut old clothes into small pieces with old varnish mirrors and needles, sew them into small sandbags, or a bear like a “conforming” bear。
A small car or television in a cardboard box: dig a hole in a big box for a window, draw a wheel and the child can get into a “drive”; or make a paper-shell television with the child on his body and perform for grandpa。
The emotional logic behind it:
To the grandkids: toys are "temperature" and grandpa's hand, eyes and laughter. After many years, grandsons may have forgotten the toy itself, but will remember the scratches that fell on grandpa's lap while watching him grind wood。
To grandpa: a 70-year-old body may be worse than it was before, but when he made toys for his grandson, he seemed to be the younger father who made toys for his children. It's a sense of continuity of life -- my work has passed on to you, and my happiness has given you。
If you're writing this scene, you might want to add the following details:
His grandfather was wearing old glasses, and he used sandpaper on the balcony to grind the edges of a wooden car, fearing that he would stab his grandson's hand. The 4-year-old grandkids were lying around, wearing grandpa's glasses box as a hat, and they said, "grandpa, can a car run?"
Grandpa looked up and looked at the light, and he said, "i'll run." and when grandpa put a wheel on it, he could take my little treasure and run all over the world
Finally:
The so-called "grandfather" homemade toys, the core "materials" were never wood or needles, but the time grandpa was willing to spend on you. That is why stories like this can always easily hit the softest place in our hearts — because of that clumsy and focused love, and the money never changes。
