The sun and wind were so enticing today… JediBoy spent a big chunk of the day outside. First he played on the porch, where he has a mini “workbench” set up, made of cinder blocks and plywood, where he saws Styrofoam pieces with his plastic saw and then hammers golf tees into them. It’s such an easy but SAFE outlet for his interest in construction and tools - something he can do without supervision. We’ve had this work area set up since he was about 2 1/2 and he still loves it, at almost 5.
Then he was deeply interested in leaves, and in finding all the different kinds of leaves in our yard. Here’s his first collection from this morning:
As I helped him find some more leaves - to reach the leaves from our maple trees - I suggested we make a sun picture with them. It was a little too windy to work perfectly, and I haven’t bought a batch of actual sunprint paper this year, so we made do with black construction paper. Here’s our print:
The white splotch is from his later activity, the over-eager hoeing of the patch of not-shrub in front of the house. (That’s the place where I had a shrub, until I left for a week several years ago and returned to find out that my industrious husband, his brother, and an oh-so-helpful friend had RIPPED IT OUT hoping to find the spot where water was coming into the basement. Three years later, I still have a bare patch of dirt there, where JediBoy parks his wagon and Cozy Coupe, and water still comes into the basement during heavy rain seasons. But I’m not bitter.)
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