Toys Without Boundaries

Children today have a wide variety of choices to engage their minds during their free time. Electronic games have goals to reach, board games have a means to the end, and sporting games eventually have winners and losers. I encourage my students and children to do activities that have no “end game”. Toys like building blocks, connecting rods, and erector sets. Crafts like painting, working with crafts and modeling clay. And imaginative play, like role playing, building then playing creative instruments, and just playing. These activities engage the imagination, remove boundaries and and encourages creativity. The late amazing Walt Disney was asked if he thinks outside the box, and he replied, “why does there have to be a box?” Therefore, next time your child or student says “I’m bored”, answer them, “then you are not curious”.