A "quarantine" for the quarantine

Created: 12/23/2021, 9:00 AM

From: Hanna von Prittwitz

Angels, lucky pigs, snowmen and more: Christiane and Sascha Reiner with a few examples from the handicraft box “The little quarantine”.

© Andrea Jaksch

Christiane Reiner from Gilching has been creative for as long as she can remember.

Now she wants to shorten the quarantine time for children.

With a cute monster "Quarantine" and a craft box.

Gilching

- In the living room of the Reiner family, you want to be a child again immediately. Everything is ready in the handicraft corner, feathers, sticky googly eyes in all sizes, pens, glue, colored paper, felt, foam rubber, collected toilet paper rolls and and and. The fund is huge. No question about it, someone lives here who knows how to keep busy. Creativity is also the best means of surviving the quarantine period, which children in particular are threatened with over and over again during these weeks. That is the basic idea behind the handicraft set “The Little Quarantine”, which Christiane Reiner brings to the children's homes on request.

“I've always tinkered with,” says Reiner of himself. And stories written and painted. No wonder that the 50-year-old is known like a sore thumb in the creative scene in Gilching. Because, of course, she gives handicraft and painting courses and regularly invites you to write meetings. Although all of this has been going on online since Corona, the threads are not breaking, on the contrary.

The idea for the “quarantine” arose from a request from a friend who was probably not as well equipped as the Reiners when it came to handicraft materials. In all honesty, handicrafts always fail because something is missing or the glue has dried out. So Christiane Reiner put together craft boxes - supported by her husband Sascha (44), who was also enthusiastic about the idea. Christiane Reiner has already delivered the first eight “quarantines”. They are put together individually according to the age of the child and interests. “This is of course the advantage over online handicraft courses, in which everyone tinkers the same thing together,” says Christiane Reiner. Parents can send an email to christiane.reiner@web.de and then we can start.The boxes cost between 15 and 20 euros and, if desired, can be designed so that the children can work alone. That is also the principle of the online craft courses. In the long run, the "quarantine" should become a small character, which of course not only brings creativity into the houses in the quarantine.

Christiane Reiner was born in Mainz and has lived in Gilching for about ten years with husband Sascha, controller, and son Jurij (7).

Before Jurij was born, the trained beautician worked for a Munich telephone directory publisher.

“I always have ideas,” says Christiane Reiner.

“That is both a curse and a blessing.

Because they never leave me alone. ”Husband Sascha and son Jurij benefit from their creative partner and mom across the board: beautiful pictures of Christiane Reiner hang on the walls, and of course the advent calendars have not been bought either.

The fact that she makes others happy with her many ideas is actually the driving force behind the 50-year-old.

"I don't do this for myself, but for the children."