Inventions and Innovations

Campbell has been very creative lately, coming up with these things on her own. She usually will get a project going during quiet time (Blake's nap time). Looks like she got the creative gene that skipped me! Here are some of her creations:

A paperclip holder. She came up with the concept and design all by herself, I was pretty impressed! I wasn't paying attention to what she was working on, and she had cut the cardboard and was taping the parts together by the time she told me what she was doing. She just needed a bit of help figuring out how to tape the third side to make it form a box.

According to Campbell, this is a "Teach Kids How to Milk a Cow Toy". Still cracks me up just thinking about it. She saw this wooden toy at the nature center that was a replica of something kids used to play with back in the day. The toy was a teddy bear hanging down between 2 ropes. You pulled the ropes alternating to get the bear to climb the rope.  For her version, you need someone to hold the plastic container up and then the kid holds the paper 'handles' and  'milks' the ribbon. Again, not paying attention when she was crafting this. Totally on her own. She only needed help figuring out how to get the ribbon to slide back and forth.

3-D paper flowers.

Paper kite. We've been talking forever about getting a kite. Campbell took the matter into her own hands and made one herself. She even went into my sewing box and found a spool of thread with not much thread left and used it for the handle & string. It actually worked great until the thread broke.

Campbell made this 8 page magazine for Blake to read while he was sitting on the potty a couple months ago when he was potty training.

Campbell was pretending to be a horse, so she made these carrots & apples for me to 'feed' her. The yellow thing at the top of the picture is a dog treat for Blake who was pretending (as usual) to be a dog.

A match game.

Puppet show. She changed out the drawings several times for scene changes. She's holding the puppets, which are people drawn on cut out piece of paper towel.

Decorating for our St. Patrick's Day party. She cut out, punched holes & threaded the 'decorations' through ribbon and hung up across several doors and doorways. These are still up. Not sure if I'll ever be able to convince her to take them down.

The audience for a show Campbell put on.

She cut out tickets and poked hole (because that's what the conductor does on Dinosaur Train) for every single one of the 50+ audience members.

We're going through a lot of tape and paper around here, which is totally fine with me!