Imagination Playtime
August 8, 2017
Imagination Playtime
This morning was a surprise of miniature proportion.
First off, when I stumbled into the kitchen to start my coffee at 5:20am, my preteen was awake!
Secondly, the playroom was spotless (toyacts was creating a few new videos in the playroom the previous night).
This sparked an idea.
“Let’s play legos, want to build something together?” My suggestion was met with rocketing jumps where my five foot tall eleven-year-old banged her head on our roof. “Yippee! Ouch.”
We discussed all things building; like which pieces came from which sets, which sets were missing pieces (thanks to the vacuum, Sheba’s mouth, or teething younger siblings; Rebeccah is the lego master and knows where everything went – much like me with my childhood bricks), and whose head and hair I had mismatched on my mini-figs. (Once, I had Elron’s hair with Commissioner Gordon’s head, the result looked like a sweet old lady to me.)
Our building progressed to a tree fort with crazy entrances and exits, three towers, complete with the tallest one having a princess locked inside where her puppy is trying to save her while the Barbarian ax man is considering Chinese food. (See picture, if you can find it!)
The blue magician conjures up a storm and an adventurer seeking the everlasting flame (in the bowl, middle, second tower) will accidentally be shot by a kid bowman’s awry trick shot from the top of the bridge. We goofed off until it was almost lunchtime. The girl elf hair ended up paired with a repaired face that looks like it has feathery bangs to make a crossbowman. (She was going to be an archer – my favorite – but the hair wouldn’t fit with the quiver and I couldn’t have her without ammo!)
I love delving into imagination (last night it was duplos to build tunnels for Lucas’ train and car tracks) and discovering how my kids’ brains see problems. Building blocks bring that out. They help teach children to think around their problems (yes, that they created, like “Mommy, I want two cars to go under it!” Jillian, last night. Or “How are we going to camouflage this huge tree fort effectively?” Rebeccah, today.)
Oh, and don’t forget the sharks patrolling the island fort (notice the blue water on the plates?) as Rebeccah claims the most important part of any lego set are the critters included.
Thanks for reading!
Type at you later…
~Nancy Tart
