This is the last of the five kits my Little Builders got to work on, and I saved it for the final post for a reason.
On paper, the Rowood Purple Moth Orchid looks like one of the easiest: difficulty 2, and an estimated build time of 30 minutes.
In reality? They’ve spent hours on it. Hours and hours.
The very first steps were the flowers, and that’s exactly where everything slowed down.
The petals are flexible, tiny, and soooo delicate!!! They had trouble fitting them inside the central parts of the orchid, and every petal needed to be placed perfectly or the rest of the flower wouldn’t go together. Watching them snap, bend and breaking the small pieces over and over… poor them 
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What I found most interesting was how each girl had her own way of coping with the difficulty:
- some tried going straight into the petals.
- others immediately escaped to paint the pot first because the flowers were stressing them out.
- and a few discovered that the petals are pale pink on one side and stronger pink on the other, so they decided to assemble them reversed, or mix them, because they preferred that look (and yes, it also worked!).
Honestly, I had to help them a loooooooooooot in this first part. Seeing them so desperate while the others moved on with their “easier” builds gave me a bit of sadness… but at the same time, this is their learning process. Patience, frustration, trial and error, it’s all part of the magic.
In the next post I’ll tell you more curiosities, their own opinions, and their final results with the Purple Moth Orchid. Spoiler: after all the suffering… they turned out beautiful.
Stay tuned! 
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