Making

The other day I was walking past the table, and despaired about the amount of mess that always seemed to be there. But then I looked a bit harder and saw that everything on the table was related to someone making or doing something.


See if you can find the following things

• a cardboard box house that was built for a small plush dog. This house has sleeping rooms, a mezzanine with a ramp, living areas and a toilet
• small plastic containers that had spilled sequins and little beads, ideal for sticking onto things to make them very beautiful indeed
• a toddler who has been drawing with textas
• a sheet of example writing for a school aged lad who wanted to write a letter to his best adult friend telling him how much he loves her
• a wasp made out of a coco pops box, made by a lad who is very scared of wasps, and is trying to find out more about them to help him beat his phobia
• sticky tape
• a Footrot Flats book, and a fantasy dragon type book, both of which the kids are loving reading at the moment
• string, pencils, cut out paper, a flower made of paper and a pipe cleaner
• a vase of flowers (ok, so you can't see the flowers, just the vase) that The Love Of My Life brought home one day just because.

So instead of getting all crappy about the bloody mess all over the table, it made me feel like the clutter was really worthwhile, and evidence of what we value in our family. Hooray mess! Hooray constructive clutter! Hooray kids making stuff from the things around them and not needing instruction or help or a manufactured kit! Hooray creativity!