This plant with its spiky leaves and round fruits grows on beaches in Hong Kong. Its name is Wild Chinese Pineapple or Screw pine (lat. Pandanus) and it has an important role in keeping the sand and soil from being washed into the ocean. Parts of the fruit can be found in the sand and they look very pretty,almost like little brushes. See, a couple of them even germinated in my garden! So with this background knowledge and a big green Wild Pineapple in front of them, the children start to draw. It is a difficult task as the surface is made up of an intricate and repeating pattern. How patient they copy each seed and how beautiful those drawings turn out! I am once again very proud of my little artists:-)
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