Okay, so to most people this pile of stuff would look like junk, but to a child (and a former preschool teacher) this is treasure! Today my friend and once co-worker Lorna took Joshua and I to a little, hard-to-find place called Learning from Scratch. It's a small corner in a warehouse that has bins of recyclable materials (wood blocks, foam pieces, tubes, cardboard shapes, magnets, etc) that you can choose from and fill a plastic bag for $3.00. It was like Christmas for Joshua when I told he he could choose whatever he wanted! We filled to plastic bags up to the very top (thanks to Lorna's tip of putting the plastic bags in a sturdier bag to hold it upright) and collected quite the variety of goodies for Joshua to create with at home. When we got home Joshua gleefully dumped out all his loot and we sorted through and organized his materials. Then Joshua decided he wanted to create a flatbed from some of his new goods. So, I got out the glue gun and he placed things where he wanted with no help from me (besides me controlling the glue gun). He has been playing with his finished product ever since. This is a great way to get our not-so artsy kid into a little more art play! He loves the freedom to create whatever he wants!
The sorted and organized loot.
2 comments:
totally been there, loved the stuff, kept Emma occupied for weeks, what a find!
Looks like a place Nicholas would love.
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