This Blazing Imagination activity was not truly planned, it was simply playing outside when one idea became built on another idea. It began with B's construction trucks, who this morning needed to do some work outside. There were a lot of limbs that had fallen out of the tree from the recent rain.
B began to use his trucks to gather stick after stick, placing them in specific piles. From there he decided he needed some platforms (small pieces of lumber we have outside). Once he'd finished this job, he needed a job site for them to work at and to take all this lumber to. So we added our sand/water table top on the ground. B then re purposed the platforms into ramps so the machines could make it to the job site. At this point he decided that the job was to build a log cabin.
He tried and tried to stack these tiny sticks into a square shape, which turned out to be very difficult.
Even for Mommy, this was not easy but we were finally able to make a log cabin.
I loved watching how B's imagination grew with the simplest of nature. I had often though of buying those nice, expensive natural tree building blocks like these below, but now that I've seen the free version delight B for more than an hour; these will be off our list. Now I'm wondering what he might come up with for rocks, leaves or anything else we find in our backyard.
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