{hers} A Bag Flying

How delighted was I to learn a few years back that the imagination gene  was a dominant one passed down from my mother to me to my daughter.  Although she has yet to make a mud pie (something my mother and I both loved to do as little girls) my Little Miss loves make-believe and making things and will pretend for hours if given the opportunity.  She will create her own games and activities and invite us to join her and while after a long day at work I am not always up for starting a restaurant, hosting a fashion show or conducting  a science experiment I do love watching her mind at work and listening to the sounds of her giggles as she plays and creates into the night.  She also happens to be a great inventor.  If she wants to play with something and we don’t have it she’ll find a way to make it.  Her most recent invention – “a bag flying” also known as a kite.  Who knew that you could tie a piece of gift wrap string to a grocery bag and create a kite bag flying?  Well the Little Miss did.  Here’s the logic behind her latest invention:

“I call it a bag flying.  I wanted a kite so I took a bag and I put a string on it because the first one I made was out of paper and it flew  in the  sky.   I had made it out of paper and I taped it to the string so it flew away.”

Here are some photos of the Little Miss taking her bag for a test flight. No wind needed  but a running start helps!

 {Yee haw!}

 {It’s working} 

 {It’s a bag.  Flying.}

{And yes.  It’s that fun. }

What was your (or your little one’s) latest invention? Do you still use your imagination? Do you encourage your children to use their’s? 

Now if you would excuse me while I go help the Little miss out of her swimming pool bathtub.  Good night lovelies.