It’s hot. 82 with 75% humidity. A good day to stay inside and play. So I got out the toothpicks and the marshmallows I’ve had in the cupboard since Easter…hoping to find a way to use them up so we don’t eat them.
They are extra large marshmallows built for smores so I cut them into different sizes and put them in front of Joe with the toothpicks and let him go to town.
At first he just started eating them.
Then I showed him how to build with the toothpicks.
After that he started sticking toothpicks all over the marshmallows and talking a mile a minute about monsters and snakes.
When we were all done, I threw the marshmallows away, satisfied that we had gotten just as much entertainment out of them had we eaten them instead of building monsters and snakes.
And…Joe gave his imagination a good workout to boot.
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