Over the past 2 years, the Museum of Da Nang has launched many highly creative programmes for children with the main intention of encouraging them to become more engaged in turning their theory they learn in their schools into practice, and especially enhance their necessary life skills.

Doan Anh Sang, from the Nguyen Phan Vinh Primary School showing his creativeness and dexterity through spheres made from coloured paper sheets

Recently, children enjoying exciting moments during their active participation in a fair held at the museum as ‘true traders’.

The event featured a total of 20 booths selling a wide range of products, including toys, comic books, many kinds of beverages, snacks and other lovely, eye-catching items which were very inviting to school-aged children.

Encouragingly, many of the items on display were made by these ‘child traders’ by themselves, whilst their parents only bought raw materials for them.

Year 7 pupil Le Ngoc Han from the Tran Quy Cap Junior High School, one of the ‘traders’ participating in the fair, said she has a keen interest in homemade slime recipes.

Slime is a unique play material composed of a cross-linked polymer. It is classified as a liquid and is typically made by combining polyvinyl alcohol solutions with borate ions in a large mixing container. It often has an unpleasant odor, a green colour, and is cold and slimy to the touch.

Toy slime is typically composed of tangled, long-chain polymer molecules. These polymer molecules can be thought of as spaghetti strands. When put together on a plate, the strands are mixed together making a tangled mess. If the strands are rubbed together, they line up and become smoother. This motion gives the mass its slimy, slippery feel.

Han said that she usually spend her free time to make slime at home for sale on the social networks or to their neighbouring peers.

A total of 70 boxes of slime were on display at Han’ booth at this fair, with each worth between 10,000 VND and 20,000VND, depending on size and intricacy.

These eye-catching lovely items attracted a great deal of attention from visitors, especially children at the event.

Also being very eager to act as a ‘trader’, Year 7 pupil Nguyen Thi Quynh Tien from the Nguyen Hue Junior High School, and her cousin, Year 5 Chau Tran Thien Phuong, from the Hung Vuong Primary School, sold such beautiful children-favoured items as key rings, beaded necklaces, whose prices range from 7,000VND to 15,000VND.

A 5^th grader, Doan Anh Sang, from the Nguyen Phan Vinh Primary School showed his creativeness and dexterity through spheres made from coloured paper sheets made by himself.

These large and small-sized items are valued at only 4,000VND and 7,000VND respectively.

The parents of these ‘traders’ highly praised the fair for its great significance during which their children really had a good opportunity to explore their creativity and imagination, and enhance their self-confidence and interpersonal communication and other necessary life skills.