My little sellotape artist…
There are many form of art and craft, like drawing, painting, sketching, paper crafting etc. but have you ever heard of sellotape craft. Yes, I too discovered it for the first time. And the artist is none other than, my little son.
In this Pandemic period, all the kids are locked inside their home doing one or the other thing. If not anything, they just go on disturbing their parents, who are busy doing their office work. Being a parent I should admit, it has become really difficult for all of us to entertain these small munchkins. We really really want this virus to go, so that we can go back to our normal life. We want, the schools to open, we want the malls to open, we want to loiter again here and there, we want to hang again to our favourite holiday places, we want to gulp down, our favourite cuisine in our favourite restaurants, but at the same time we want to enjoy our new, work from home formula too.
In between all these my little one has got a new idea to keep himself engaged. Through designing things for himself the way he want them to be.
I see him taking all his toys, especially the broken one, and yes if it’s not broken he will break it, to design something new. He takes the broken pieces and try attaching them with the help of a sellotape to create something new.
One day I saw him busy watching cartoons, but at the same time his mind and hands were busy giving a shape to his imagination. There was a broken smart watch in his hand, two waste batteries, which I threw as it was no more usable, and some other broken pieces of his toys. Busy attaching all the pieces with a sellotape. After few moments I saw, there was a robot like thing kept on the dinning table. Surprised to see his imagination I thought, he is so thoughtful to use each piece perfectly to transform it, to be like a robot. It was a perfect robot just needed some coding and it could work.
Few days back I was searching the robot so that I can take a picture of it but I forgot, the life of all his toys were one week at most. And if it was his own creation then two days is enough…
So, here the robot was broken again to form a transformer.
He has used one of his old toy car here, and has attached the broken smart watch at the front to count the speed. At the left he has used two boxes of clay dough, which according to him is the gun, at the left he has attached hulks hand, so that the transformer gets a strong hand, and at the back he has attached the doors of his broken remote car so that the transformer could fly. For him it’s all in one transformer.
Oh yes, if you ask him, why don’t you use glue instead of sellotape his answer would be, “it takes lot of time to get dried and I don’t have that much time.”
This one is not yet completed I think, its work in progress. Yes, in this the cement truck is broken, since I can’t see that cylindrical part at the back, and at the top he has attached the dinosaur transformer, and two blocks on both the sides as its hand.
It’s all his imagination. We don’t stop him, though sometimes I get angry when he breaks some new toy. But at this moment, I mean to say in this pandemic period it’s ok with me, as long as he don’t bother’s me.
On the other day, I asked my little one to clean up the bed, as he created a mess everywhere. He started to clean up, I also started helping him. Suddenly he switched On the cooler, and a small piece of paper which he rolled for some reason started to fly. I saw him watching it, very carefully. I asked him, “come to the bed now it’s time to sleep.” He replied, “wait Mamma I have some work to do.” Now, when something comes to his mind, we are not able to stop him, since he wants to finish his work first then switch to other things.
After few minutes he came back with these.
These are nothing but rolled papers attached with sellotape having four feathers, two at the front, and two at the back. I asked him, “ what are these?”He answered, “Mumma these are birds, and these will fly very fast you know?” I said, “Ok, but who taught you to make these types of birds, did you watch it in TV?” He said, “no Mumma, I got this idea, when I saw that small paper flying.” After saying this, he started to play with his own creation.
What ever he said made me think deeply, that a creative mind can go so far. Just by seeing, one small piece of paper flying in front of the cooler, he got this idea.
Though he is creative, I don’t want to burden him, by putting him in different coaching classes. Yes, when he grows up I might help him to polish his skills.
According to me, creativity is at its peak, when the child is set free. Sometimes I think, what he will become when he grows up, as all parents worry, so do I. At times he is very naughty too. I don’t know, what he would become when he grows up. But I want him to be, a responsible citizen first and other things later…..
