Winter Fun in L.A.

This week I taught Ben's little preschool and the theme was winter. It was a little strange teaching them about snow and winter and then letting them play outside in short sleeves and sandals right after. Since we can't make real snowmen, the kids each made one out of play dough. They had so much fun and the snowmen turned out really cute.

When Jimmy got home from school he wanted to make one too so here is his masterpiece.

After about five minutes Jimmy's snowman evolved into something else. I'm not quite sure exactly what it is. It has a piece on it's head from Optimus Prime (a transformer) so it can fly. It is kind of hard to tell from the picture but it also has 2 mouths and when I asked Jimmy why he said, "the one on the bottom is so he can talk to the bugs on the ground and the one on the top is so he can talk to people who are bigger than him." All I could really say to that is, "Oh, very creative." He also made a gun out of toothpicks and buttons to "shoot the bad guys" and a green plastic water squirter in front of the snowman. Jimmy said that if there are too many bad guys then the water squirter will flood the whole city and save the snowman from the bad guys. I have to admit, he is very creative and imaginative. His kindergarten teacher calls him "little picasso" because his artwork always has an abstract quality to it. Thankfully she is very understanding and lets him explore his creativity. I guess it's better to allow him to express his creativity then to squelch it.