The past 24 hours have been a whirlwind for us. There are lots of details - arranging the money for Visa, medical, transportation fees, filling out our final forms and getting them notarized, etc - that have been eating up my brain. We spent a large chunk of time with Leigh & company last night, playing, eating pizza, and sorting through clothes and shoes.
This morning I’ve been trying to sort those clothes into our own stash, arrange paperwork and somehow spend quality time with my son at the same time. We were dared into making a craft, though.
After eating two sheet pizzas (it was really quite a party) at Leigh’s last night, she sent me home with a baggie of twelve of the little “pizza tables” - the plastic three-legged bits that keep the box lid from smushing the pizza. JediBoy & I had a fun time while we were washing them - it was a bit like playing my favorite improv game, Props. We kept turning them this way and that, thinking about what we could do with them.
I thought about using them as painting tools - you could make cool dots with the legs, and neat circular impressions with the tops. I thought about using them with playdough or Model Magic, just to add dimensionality. Or, just building with them like toys. I’m not sure, if you created a structure you wanted to make permanent, what kind of glue you could use to adhere them. They do have a lot of appeal as building toys, or the obvious tiny tables for dolls.
Eventually I had four of them stacked together - because of the arrangement and legs and holes, you can put four together and you come up with a ragged cylindrical shape. I thought it looked like a loom; JediBoy thought it looked like a barrel. So out came the lanyard and perler beads. We worked on weaving the lanyard around the sticking-up legs like a loom, sometimes adding beads. I helped JediBoy get them started and stopped, and he directed me to make a little tighter design on the black one. Here’s a view from the top down:
He made two - a blue one and a green one - mostly independently. (I helped him weave the ends in.) He enjoyed doing it but because the lanyard is slippery he sometimes got frustrated when the row he was weaving would pop off. We could do it another time with ribbon or yarn, but the plastic-on-plastic-on-plastic motif was a draw for me today. Here he’s loading up the finished products with his Playmobil bits:
