Danielle feeding her bubba the other day from her little bowl of crystals.
Nathan decided this morning that he wanted to build a train track and wanted me to do it with him, so he started by drawing up a plan.
He then set to work. I found it fascinating (and guess it's the whole men are from mars and women from venus when it comes to map reading) that he had his map sitting at a 90 degree angle to where he was building the track. For me, I tried to set the map the same direction as the track was but he kept resetting it back to the other angle so I left him to it. LOL
We were out the other day choosing a present for a friend's birthday party yesterday and the kids chose this little set of scales for themselves and have had fun with it.
Danielle had a little plaster of paris kit. We poured it into the mould yesterday and she was ready to start painting today. It started off as bright pink. Then later on she was repainting it and announced that it was now green - and that she'd used blue to make it (there was no green in the paint pots). I asked if she'd also used yellow to get that colour. It was fun to hear the amazement in her voice at what had happened. I still recall Nathan annoncing a similar discovery a few years back - so despite having been painting for years and seeing it happen over and over, it must just click one day at *how* that happens and so neat to see the realisation for themselves rather than me showing them (probably more due to a lazy-mama rather than by plan).
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Posted by Nik at 6:28 PM
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It's all familiar!
We have that same track (with the bridge).
And the colors - mine loved so much the other day mixing different shades into the bowls - the ones we froze outside.
The were amazed and delighted at their independent discoveries.
I was delighted by them, of course.
Oh! I forgot to tell you (what I was leaving a comment to say!) was that the map made me laugh. I would'a kept turning it properly, too!
That's so funny that he kept turning it! lol
It was so funny, I just couldn't build it when the map was sideways, but he was adament it needed to be like that for him to build it lol. I'loved your frozen colours, looked like great fun and will be filing it away in my mind for a day when we're out of ideas.
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