This week’s Unplug Your Kids theme was SHINY. I decided to post about another one of our family’s favorite activities, just like I did last week, because my kids were creating SHINY things without any extra planning on my part!
We shop at the dollar store about once a month, and when we do, I always buy a fresh $1 roll of aluminum foil for my kids’ art studio. [The area in our kitchen with a big bookshelf full of art supplies is respectfully called their “art studio.”] JediBoy especially uses foil in all kinds of interesting ways, and BabyGirl loves to crumple it and sometimes chew on it. Doesn’t that thought make your molars ache? But she doesn’t seem to mind the taste at all!
JediBoy’s favorite thing to do with aluminum foil is to sculpt it into shapes, usually spaceships of all kinds. This week he was making the Millennium Falcon, the Imperial Star Destroyer, and the Death Star. We have passed many a spare half hour this way, with the box of foil between us on the couch, ripping off small pieces and molding them into interesting shapes that become instant playthings.
They may look like random blobs of foil to you, but JediBoy worked carefully on each one and could tell you exactly what it represents!
JediBoy also likes to cut and create things out of cardboard, and this week he made himself a sword and an axe from cardboard and then used a glue stick to add aluminum foil to make them shiny and metallic.
We have drawn and painted on aluminum foil, embossed it with a dull pencil, and used it to create crowns, rings, and all kinds of shiny accessories. It’s a fun and SHINY addition to our stash of art supplies!
