Lana's penchant for tape
29 October 13
Lana is still enjoying her games with scissors, but it’s been enhanced by an awareness of the wonders of sticky-tape. She spends many happy hours cutting and sticking things together. I gratefully accept small parcels of paper and plant bundled together with sticky-tape and less gratefully spend time cleaning the stray bits off our floor.
Let’s review so of what she’s been making!
We start with some light bondage. (Sorry, Platty!)
Sting-ray from Bali is subjected to similar restraints.
It's a new fashion — fully self-administered!
Your imagination can decide if it's modern art or a rainbow rocket.
Lana takes her scissors outside to cut flowers for her creations. Sometimes I am gifted with mini bouquets of taped flowers that I pin onto my shirt or wear in my hair.
Although the left-over bits of sticky-tape sometimes drive me crazy, I’m thankful that Lana’s occupied, creative and happy. While I know it’s just a phase, I like to think that she’s building up skills that will prove useful in the future. Meanwhile, I have the bits to clean off the floor to keep me humble!
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1 · lily boot · 7 November 2013, 09:29
hee! hee! so cute! The first thing my girl did each morning when she arrived at kinder was head to the collage table where she made dogs – lots and lots of sticky tape holding together whatever represented “dog” that day. We still have a box of these dogs – I cannot bear to throw them away – they sing of her passion and creativity at that time. I love that you’ve been able to capture it in photos.
2 · Missy · 7 November 2013, 09:43
Thank you so much for posting this. My daughter is SO into tape and scissors right now and I need reminders that I’m not alone and to be patient!!! So many scraps on the floor and all over the house and so many things cut and taped in all sorts of ways :) I am sure that this will at some point be a great awesome manifestation of a gift God has given her – so I’m trying to hang in there! <3
3 · Diana · 7 November 2013, 18:01
This made me laugh so hard! Thank you, I needed a smile today. The ‘mounted’ platypus is my favourite with the napkin dress coming a close second. And Lauren, don’ be so sure that she’ll grow out of it, I still love chopping away at stuff with scissors, it’s one of the reasons I eat so many herbs in my cooking, it gives me a chance to productively snip!