Lego's, Dangerous Animals and a Child's Imagination

February 4, 2016

Treysen choose the cassowary bird as his dangerous animal to write about a couple of days ago for his creative writing assignment and today he begged me to let him do legos as his art time for school.  He even promised that it was school related.  Although bummed that we didn't have enough of the right colors for a realistic looking bird he didn't let that stop him.

Clarissa not to be outdone by her younger brother set to work on her writing project subject a cane toad.  She used every single green block we owned and even convinced her brother to swap out the green blocks he had used for other colors but to no avail.  We still didn't have enough green and just like his cassowary her cane toad ended up a rainbow of lego color.

I love watching my kids use their own ideas and imagination when they play and build with their toys.  It means so much more to them and they learn and grow in so many more ways then when they just follow a printed set of directions.  They both think they would make good lego set designers someday.  I smile and nod knowingly and look forward to what they will decide they want to be when they grow up tomorrow.