This is Part 2. Part 1 is here.
I LOVE how kids think! I love their unbridled creativity… and when you allow them the freedom to create and play (without hovering and controlling and telling and instructing)… I think children come up with the most profound stuff – on their own.
Here’s some more pics of what my kids create – and how they play – when left to their own devices:
Morgan found a feather… and then she found some ink… and decided to experiment…
These are actually two “forts” built for their “Emergency Robots” (made from lego)…
You probably can’t see them – but this is a game where the “Emergency Robots” are being washed away down a flooded river!
I’m not sure what his character is on this occasion… I can’t keep up!
Morgan is very jealous of American kids who get to go “Trick or Treating” (which is not a big *thing* here in South Africa). She decided to make herself a “witch hat”… I think it’s pretty impressive! She also applied her own make-up.
Morgan’s “Witch Outfit”. She says that if we had Trick-or-Treating (here)… then this is what she’d wear.
Joah building a creation out of rocks, and other bits and pieces collected from the ground (at a nursery)…
The kids made this…
There’s actually a whole story around this Bug Homestead. It has a garden, a cabbage patch and a lightning pole.
And finally…. these two photos were taken by Nick (on his old cell phone – hence the bad quality). He was busy working in his studio… and Morgan kept appearing at his door in new outfits…. hee-hee!
And… for pure nostalgia’s sake… here’s some photos of what I used to get up to when I was a kid…
Art… at any opportunity.
Inventing and rehearsing shows (this was a performance we did for “the grown-ups”)…
Inventing new games. I can’t remember what this one was about – but it involved pulling my sister (and her sign, and her doll) around on a wagon.
