There's a lot to be said about playing with things that come from nature. Smooth rocks, pieces of wood, shells, pine cones, acorns, leaves... all of these things connect a child to the earth, and the elements. And they help to bring out the child's imagination in the way that other manufactured toys cannot. A car, is a car, is a car. But a stone can be a meteor (as Aidan has told me) or any other thing a child's mind envisions it to be.
We were playing with Acorns in the driveway for a few days, collecting them, and bringing them inside. The boys bottled them in glass jars and added them to their kitchen, cooked them into different 'dishes'. We even used some crushed up ones in a Yule oil we are brewing (but that's for another post).
We used a few of the caps to make
The Acorn Kids. I think they are the cutest things. And they get a lot of play time in with the boys.
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