Home Made Fun
I spent most of today in my office with my brain so tangled in accounting that I was only peripherally aware of the kids. I came up at dinner time to discover that crafts had happened. In fact it was more like a craft explosion all across the table and counters. Patch, Gleek, and their friends had colored paper, and cut paper, and torn paper, and folded paper, and taped paper, and thrown paper all over the kitchen. It reminded me once again that my kids are capable of finding hours of amusement in the simplest of objects.
I think I’ve shown this picture before. This was the time that the kids discovered a stash of little cups left over from a book launch party.
Those little colored balls are pellets from an airsoft gun. Gleek and Link carefully collected them all on their walks home from school. I’ve no idea what the rules of the game are, but playing occupied hours of time.
Those gray things are pieces of foam that Howard has picked out of the trays in which he stores his minis. We have a large garbage bag full. Every so often the kids will dump out the bag and make whole towns out of the stuff. This picture was either taken during the early stages of construction, or it is a battle between the two forts. Perhaps they’ll lob airsoft pellets at each other.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother to purchase toys.