--- title: Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Making things is great fun, but craft tools can cut, prick, stain, stick and burn, so each one has a simple safe way to use it. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and need… # Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles Lesson 245 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/0/) — Making things is great fun, but craft tools can cut, prick, stain, stick and burn, so each one has a simple safe way to use it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/1/) — Scissors cut away from your body and are carried with the points down; needles live in a pincushion and are counted back at the end. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/2/) — Glue sticks, white glue and markers dry out if left open, so the lid or cap always goes back on; super glue and kilns are for adults only. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/3/) — Paint stains clothes, so you wear an old shirt or apron, and you wash brushes straight away, before the paint dries hard. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/4/) — A girl in Toronto counts her sewing needles back into the pincushion: nine out, nine back, so her cat will not step on one. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/5/) — Children use child safety scissors, cut away from their body and walk with the points down. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/6/) — White glue and glue sticks are used a little at a time, the lid goes back on, and hands are washed after. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/7/) — Super glue sticks skin together in seconds and can even glue eyelids, so only an adult uses it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/8/) — An old shirt or apron protects your clothes from paint, which stains. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/9/) — If paint splashes in your eye, rinse it with clean water and tell an adult. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/10/) — Paintbrushes are washed straight after painting, because dry paint goes hard and ruins them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/11/) — Watercolour and acrylic paint rinse out in water; oil paint needs an adult and a special cleaner, which can be poisonous. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/12/) — Permanent markers do not wash off, so they are used only on paper or with permission, and the cap goes back on. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/13/) — Glitter is used over a tray and kept away from eyes, because it is hard to clean and hurts eyes. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/14/) — Clay is kept moist under plastic, hands are washed after, and the kiln (a very hot oven that bakes clay into pottery) is only for adults because it is extremely hot. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/15/) — Knitting and sewing needles are kept in a pincushion and counted back, so none are left to prick people or pets. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/16/) — Chalk drawings belong on your own driveway or a quiet path, never on the road where cars come. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/17/) — A boy in Texas ran across the classroom holding open scissors; he tripped and the blade went into his leg, and he needed stitches. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/18/) — A girl in Wales got super glue on her fingers and pulled them apart in a panic; she tore her skin and it was sore for a week. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/19/) — Running with scissors or a craft knife can turn a small trip into a deep stab wound. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/20/) — Skin stuck with super glue is soaked in warm soapy water and gently rolled apart, never pulled, and glue in the eye needs a doctor. - ← previous: [Building and making things safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/) - next →: [Music practice and ball games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)