7th July is "Tanabata" the star festival in Japan.

This is the brief story about Tanabata...

Ten-Kou the God of sky had a daughter called Orihime(The star Vega) who wove cloth for the Gods. She was a very hard working girl.

And across the Milky-way, there was Ken-Guu(The star Alter) who looked after cows who also was very hard working. But as soon as Orihime and Ken-Guu met each other, they fell in love and did nothing else but spend time together. so Ten-Kou got angry and dicided to separate them and they weren't allowed to see eachother. They still didn't do any work as they were too sad to be separated, so Ten-Kou dicided that they can meet eachother once a year over the Milkyway on 7th July.

we make paper decorations and also write wishes on strips of paper and hang them on bamboo.

Kids made these at school and were displayed in shopping mall:

This one is with Tanzaku which their wishes were written.

And some with paper decorations.

And we've done some at home. As they are in school now and also we are being at my parents, I really don't do these things at home....

But we managed to make small ones! : )