Suru Tokoro located in Ryogoku, Tokyo, is a place that provide children workshops on art.

Today, we invited a designer from Netherland to teach us how they play in her home country.

Today’s teacher is Suzanne Oxenaar. She is an art director from Netherland and is the establisher of Llyd Hotel in Amsterdam. Lloyd Hotel used to be an immigrant accommodation camp but she renovated the facility to a hotel where design and art serves a great role in the hotel.

She taught us a Netherland games.

Everyone close their eyes once they get into a circle.
The it will walk around and around outside of the circle holding a handkerchief and place it behind somebody. If you realize that the handkerchief is behind you, chase the it and try to catch it. That is how the game goes.

It is similar to Handkerchief drop, a game kids often play in Japan.

The next game is musical chairs. Since there were no chairs, papers were used instead of them. You go around the paper until the music ends and once the music is stopped, you try to take a seat.
Games in Japan and Netherland are similar.
The time to go back to Netherland has come.
However, the ship we were on board has sunk.

So we decided to make a new ship ourselves!
Everybody drew on the side of the ship.
What did he draw?

“I drew a car!”

Tulip and windmill are symbol of Netherland.

We drew the flag of Japan and Netherland and Mt. Fuji.

A little artist adding some last brush.

The mother drew together. She drew a ship.

Once the coloring of the ship finished, we put stickers on the sale with everyone.
We cut into shape we like with scissors. What kind of shapes did they make?

She stuck it on the window!

The last step is to put the sales up and then finished.
Let’s get on board!

Now is the real time to say good-bye.
Everyone from Netherland, thank you!

Did you know that 400 years ago, a ship really did come to Japan from Netherland. Even when Japan closed any foreign influence, Japan opened its port to Netherland. Japan and Netherland have been in touch since 400 years ago. I hope this relationship to continue from now on.

In JAPANTWO, we will introduce Japanese culture as well as foreign culture in Japan.

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