善意捕梦网

为庆祝每年11月13日的世界善意日，我们决定制作一只捕梦网。捕梦网是一份完美礼物，既可送给自己，也可赠予他人，承载着唯一而温暖的愿望：愿你安宁与平和。

传说称，这一神奇之物曾是众多印第安原住民文化中不可或缺的一部分——他们相信，它能在睡眠中保护人们免受噩梦与负面能量侵扰，并引导人进入美梦。另有说法称，它还能助人美梦成真……

捕梦网应挂于何处？ 最佳位置是床头正上方。原因在于：夜间它悬于睡者头顶，可为其阻挡噩梦、助益美梦；而当清晨第一缕阳光触及它时，噩梦便随之消散。

这一物件的寓意源远流长：一个象征宇宙与生命循环的圆环之中，绷着一张网，代表梦境世界的不稳定性。梦境经由这张网过滤——阴暗沉重者被网捕获，滞留于中心区域，由丝线与珠子缚住，终在新一日晨光中消散；而积极美好的梦境，则可自由穿过象征空气与飞鸟翱翔的羽毛。

为完善这份礼物，我们共同思考了“善意”一词的含义：先一起阅读无字绘本《善意之路》，再彼此分享自己曾给予或收到过的善意之举。

我们的捕梦网使用了以下材料：

• 一根长约40厘米的铁丝
• 一只玻璃罐或玻璃瓶（用于绕制圆环）
• 彩色毛线（包裹铁丝圆环）
• 棉线（编织内部网）
• 珠子（孔径需较大）
• 卡纸与水彩（制作羽毛）
• 剪刀与打孔器（在纸上打孔）

首先，将铁丝缠绕于圆柱形瓶或罐上，制成规整圆环；再用彩色毛线缠绕铁丝圆环，并打结固定出悬挂手柄，以便悬挂捕梦网。

制作内部网时，我们选用白色或彩色棉线，在圆环上多点打结，并在网中穿入珠子并打结固定：

悬挂的羽毛以水彩染色的卡纸剪成，再用更多棉线与珠子系于捕梦网上。每位同学都在羽毛上写下日常可向身边人践行的善意行动：“我对你微笑”“我谢谢你”“我帮助你”“我向你道歉”“我爱你”“我尊重你”……

Dreamcatcher of Kindness

For the World Kindness Day which is celebrated every year on November 13th we thought of creating a dream catcher. The dream catcher is a PERFECT GIFT to give both to ourselves and to others with a single, loving wish: to have serenity and peace.

LEGEND says that this magical object was an integral part of many Native American cultures who believed it protected people from bad dreams and negative energy during sleep and guided them to good dreams. It is also said that they make DREAMS COME TRUE…

Where do you hang a dream catcher? The ideal position is just above the headboard of the bed. The reason is that, by floating on the head of the sleeper during the night, the dream catcher can protect him from bad dreams, favoring the good ones, and then making them disappear as soon as the first light of the morning sun touches them.

The MEANING of this object is lost in ancient times: inside a CIRCLE, which represents the universe and the cycle of life, a NET is stretched, which symbolizes the instability of the world of dreams. Dreams are filtered by the net, the darker and heavier ones remain trapped and are attracted to the central part, held back by threads and pearls, dispersing in the light of the new day. Positive dreams, on the other hand, are free to flow through the FEATHERS, which represent the air and the flight of birds.

To complete our gift we reflected on the words of kindness: after viewing the Silent Book “Way of Kindness” together we searched and told each other kind actions that we have given or received.

For our dream catchers we used:

• An iron wire approximately 40 cm long
• a glass jar or bottle to create the circle with the thread
• colored wool thread to cover the iron wire
• cotton thread to make the internal net
• beads (with rather large hole)
• cardboard and watercolors to make the feathers
• scissors and a hole punch to make holes in the paper

First we wrapped the wire around a cylindric bottle or a jar to create a regular circle, then we wrapped a colored wool thread around the wire circle, creating a handle fixed with knots, in order to hang our dream catcher.

To create the internal net we used a white or colored cotton thread and knotted it to the circle in various points, also with the addition of beads knotted inside the net:

The hanging feathers were made of watercolor colored paper, and hung with more cotton threads and pearls on the dream catcher. On the feathers everyone wrote the actions of kindness that we can give every day to those around us: we wrote words like “I smile at you”, “I thank you”, “I help you”, “I apologize”, “I love you”, “I respect you”…