Easter letter
Paper
Scissors
Card, envelope & stamp
1 Take a piece of paper, the more advanced the better, and fold it a few times until it is roughly the size of a cell phone.
2 Cut patterns in it. A few triangles here, a few squares here. Unfold and see! You did not know you were so talented, well! For purists, it’s a bonus if it looks like a snowdrop.
3 Think of the most gullible person you know well – be it a family member or a close friend; it can not be the cashier at your local Netto. Grandmothers are popular targets, so if you kick in, have a good idea of who your grandson’s best friends are.
4 Write a gecko letter: first a poem to rhyme (including the line “My name it says with dots, make sure it does not stick / my name is written with dots, make sure they do not stick) and then a series of dots – one for every letter of your Christian name. Disguise your handwriting and do not try this if your name is Bartholomew.
5 Put the decoration and the letter in an envelope (and maybe a snowdrop, unless Easter is still weeks away) and send it to your recipient.
6 Receive and eat chocolate eggs, recipient should not guess who sent them the gecko letter.
7 Laugh like Muttley as you fill your face.