Barbies have fun at the water park
Lego Ninjago and Alien Conquest meet some Star Wars invaders.
O insisted on painting in white today
E's painting, these are going to be the background to a battle scene with his "E" in the top right corner.
O,2, on the table and the lego Belville House
Just for girls - ha ha - as he tucks the Clone Troopers up in bed!
We have had our friends from Muddy Sandy Life over today for lunch and fun but not before the adventure of the Barbie's in China had finished being written and illustrated by Big Small, 7, and Middle Small, 5, finished another playmobil battle story and some Peter and Jane reading. A re-stocking shopping delivery arrived and E and I played with the cannons from the playmobil pirate ship for quite some time before the friends came over. I know he can feel left out so I was keen to invest some time with him. Worked really well he has been great.
Learning through play has been varied today. Water parks and lego and we did some painting too. O insisted on painting only in white reminding me both of how S only painted in green for months at a time when she was his age and also of a fabulous Robert Ryman exhibition at the Tate I visited back in the early nineties, 92 or 93 from memory. I am so old that this was back in the day there was only one Tate Gallery. For those of you that may not know conceptual artist Robert Ryman paints only in white. Have a google. His pictures are varied than you might think! Reminded me of that "and I bet his mother worried" joke about children who go on to succeed in an area of single interest.
2 comments:
My son would love playing at your house with all the Lego stuff! We've just recently learned about the Lego board-like games.I ordered him the Ramses game but he really like the Harry Potter and ninja one, too.
I've always thought that the unschooled kids I know seem much more creative than other kids. I think it's because they have so much more time to play unrestricted than other kids.
I have noticed that too Christina and that they continue to play with toys past when children in school would (although of course those big boys toys have a market place too!)
The Daddy One was in the US recently and remarked that in the shops he visited lego was sold more as an educational toy (& is relatively more expensive) than is so in the UK
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