Ava's Alphabet With Cutlery
You can play a game with small children. and teach them to read the Roman (English and European) alphabets using knives and forks. This teaches them the alphabet.
It also keeps children at the table with you. This is good because it stops them getting bored. It creates rapport. It prevents them from running away colliding with waiters and restaurant patrons, disturbing diners at other tables.
Or worse still, going out of doors left open or opened by incoming and outgoing guests. Then the child disappears, potentially running into traffic. I've seen this happen Worried bystanders intervene, calling the parents or carers away from the table. Much more fun to keep everybody at the table, busy, learning, creative, happy.
Now, how do you create names? Let's start with simple ones. Which are used not just by English speaking people but can also be used for Asian and Oriental people and languages, when travelling to other countries, or out to a restaurant serving ethnic food in your home city.
It is easy to create short names such as Ava, Al and Ali and Li.
Ava created from chopsticks. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Li - Surname
For example, the surname Li is very common in Chinese and oriental families. It is a surname or family name. But in the orient the family name is first, as in Singapore Late Lee Kuan Yew. Li is written differently in Chinese picture writing or Vietnamese picture writing, but transliterated into the English as Li or Lee (depending on the tribe or area or country).
It is also easy to create E, as a first name or family name.
Add A and you have Ali.
Subtract I and you have Al, short for Alexander and other names..
AVA's Knife and fork Alphabet
I was shown the use of knives and forks to make the letters A and V by a Norwegian friend who was teaching her niece. I can't find any references to this on the internet so after adding spoons for the horzontals of the A and chopsticks for an orintal version, I first thought of naming it after myself. That goes well because it is alliterative.
Angela's Alphabet. But Ava's Alphabet would be even more appropriate as this uses the straight line letters, shorter letters. So maybe the knife and for version should be Ava's alphabet, and the chopstick version should be Angela's alphabet.
Ava's Alphabet - with cutlery
So, here I shall use the name Ava's Alphabet for the knife and fork version which Ava used when I last saw her.
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