Projects

P has been enjoying new, bigger projects in the last month (in addition to all of the little ones he invents each day).  We're doing about one a week and sometimes I snap a shot, sometimes I don't ;)  But here's two of the recent faves...

The Terrarium(s)

I scored a fish bowl off of freecycle for a fab terrarium project (no picture of that terrarium, yet).  Carrying the spanish moss and a few pants home the next day, P bumped into our garden-loving neighbor, Connie.  Always excited to see anyone with a plant in their hands, she quizzed the Little Man about his plans.  Then she happily announced she had a fish bowl too!  Which was good, since the kid had picked out more plants than would fit in our first bowl....  When Connie rang our bell a bit later she had, not a bowl, but an entire aquarium.  A funky metal rimmed one from the '60's that weighed a ton and now houses half a rock collection, a bunch of plants and, occasionally, a lost, treasure seeking, snake chased, BB.

The Aquarium

My dear friend sent me a link to the most amazing kid craft site: made by joel.  I love his style.  And a lot of his ideas are super eco-friendly.  P had a fantastic time making this little aquarium (above, having gone through the play-ringer a number of times but still holding up pretty well...)  The strings are connected to clothes buttons through the top slots so that the fish can be slid back and forth.  I described the concept to P in the most basic of terms and was humbled by his artistic vision.  The sea grass,, kelp, anemone (aka, yellow blob towards the middle front) and sunken boat were all depth adding details way beyond the basic floating fish I envisioned after reading Joel's site.  P carefully designed a shark, squid, clownfish, eel and a family of crabs and jelly fish, aslo all by himself.  Then the families grew larger and their strings grew longer and longer so that they wouldn't be stuck in the aquarium anymore... they escaped out the hole he hacked in the side... and chased the small paper BB he drew...  It was an afternoon of underwater adventure for sure :)