Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Peg Fun

You may have noticed a theme with my recent posts--fun, fun, fun! Small children are delightful to spend time with because they get truly excited about little things. They will laugh and giggle and sometimes even jump for joy when offered the chance to play outside or to play with a favorite toy like the blocks or pegs or trains. We adults like special treats, too, but we don't usually express ourselves so exuberantly.

A couple of months ago I purchased a set of Lauri pegs for the children. The set of 100 pegs comes with multiple hard foam pads to aid in building structures. The little ones don't play with the foam pads much, but they love the pegs. Here's all three of them playing together with the pegs.


Here's Bentley lining the pegs up around the Nilo table.


There aren't enough pegs to go all the way around, so he put the foam pads over the last few holes. Quite creative. I tried to convince him to put pegs in every other hole, but he did not like my suggestion. He did not like Jake playing with the pegs either, so Jake had to play with the cars instead.


Some days the boys build long poles with the pegs.


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