Free, Random Play

I have been working on setting up our extra bedroom as a playroom for Tripp, and in doing so I've decided to keep my old Ikea Expedit desk as a craft station. Slowly I'm consolidating all of the random craft supplies in the house into this one spot (I have more than you'd think, for someone who doesn't really consider herself artistic). It has worked so well, with tons of storage, and has been a spot for many fun activities and crafts. It's really nice to have a little corner of the house set up just for creativity.

The other day I was looking through some craft supplies and Tripp spotted some dowel caps. Add to that some beads, air dry clay (could have used play dough, too, but I decided to use up the rest of the clay), and some Lakeshore implements he got for his birthday from his cousin, and why not have some creative open ended fun? I put it all into a disposable aluminum baking sheet and let him do what he wanted.

He had fun putting the beads into small plastic containers and dumping them out, asking me to form balls of clay and then picking them up with the tongs, rolling the dowel caps around and pressing beads into the clay. The air dry clay we used was from Crayola and was sparkly, too, which added a fun dimension to his explorations. So fun!

He spotted some glitter glue from the same cousin at the end of his play and of course we couldn't stop without trying that!