The past 3 weeks have been a whirlwind and I’ve actually gone on 2 staycations both in Sentosa. Will blog about that later, but for now, just a quick post on Littlelam’s increasing creativity and ability to execute her ideas practically.
I think there is some truth in the fact that by 5 years of age, kids are better able to handle items like scissors, tape, butter knives and even musical instruments. Lately Littlelam has been coming back from school with a plethora of rather raw-looking handmade crafts that are rather bizarre in nature. For example, a sculpture of toilet rolls cut in various places; lanterns, and random odds and ends that she claims are ‘bags’, a weather machine etc. I found out that her class has a craft corner that allows free play of the items so the kids just make what they want, all by themselves. I thought that was a great way to inspire creativity.
So when I bought her a box of Princess cookies the other day (ok, it’s just a Disney princess box with jewel shapes cookies inside), I was pleasantly surprised when she looked at it and declared, “Ooh the box is so nice! Don’t throw it away ok, because I want to make a camera with it!”
So here’s the camera! Ok for this craft I definitely had to help out quite a bit because of the difficulty and danger in using a penknife to cut out the various holes in the box. But the concept planning was entirely hers- I got her to examine her toy camera and construct the required parts:
Ariel Camera?
The little artist and photographer
