It’s not easy asking a small group of 10-year-old girls to spend four hours, multiple days a week, in a desolate backyard with only a dilapidated picnic table to sit on. It’s been a challenge to find things for them to do.
Today, I brought out a bunch of cardboard and styrofoam that I had been saving from the packaging of various pieces of furniture that have been delivered in the past three months and let them have at it. They had tape, scissors, some air dry clay, and some washable paint, along with other random art supplies and it held their attention for a good two hours.
Unfortunately the wind that San Franciscans are so used to in the summer picked up again this week (after a fairly warm and windless five days last week), and it wreaked havoc on their supplies.
Still, it was a fun project while it lasted. Half the cardboard went out with the recycling last night and the other half was saved for another day in the backyard.
*The Future is Cardboard is the title of Episode 14 of Season 1 of Craig of the Creek – one of my favorite kids’ cartoons to come out in the last decade. So, so good.
What a FABULOUS project and reuse of materials. Looks like they had lots of fun!