Children – in my albeit limited – experience, like to come
home from walks with pockets full of treasure. I’ve covered things to do with
pine-cones in the past, and
how great shells can be for water play, but there’s
always more than that… driftwood, heather roots, sea glass, leaves and flowers.
And rocks. Oh heavens, the rocks. I mean, I’ve got boxes
full of the things – seriously. I reckon 90% of what we took with us when we
moved house was boxes of rocks. To make matters worse Daughter remembers them
all, so you can’t just subtly drop them into the drive way or rockery as you go
– hole-in-the-pocket-Shawshank-style.
Anyway, I’m still working on a solution for the whole rock dilemma,
but I thought I’d share one of the collages we made when we were staying in
Denmark. This
one is possibly my favourite because honestly? It’s pretty and frame-able and
done entirely by Daughter – it’s something truly special and unique from our
time on Fanoe, rather than one of a gabillion crayon squiggles on printer paper
that I’m frequently gifted at home. My only regret is that I didn’t have some
nice backing card with me, but then, the whole thing rather took me by
surprise. I didn’t know that the girl was going to come up with something so
nice.
I literally just sat her at the table with a box full
of items, some PVA and a sheet of paper. I guess she remembered the button treethat we made a while back and drew her inspiration from there… though I like to
think she was prompted by the landscape. In any case, I suppose my point here
is that sometimes it’s nice just to let children create, because when they’re given
free-reign, they rarely fail to amaze.
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