At Luke's school, there is a woodworking center. Parents bring in wood scraps, and the kids use hammer and nails, or glue and tape, to build things.
Luke likes to make "structures"---put together pieces of wood in various ways with no glue. So far this week he's built an airplane, a rhythm instrument (upon which he plays a rhythm from violin) and a ramp.
The problem is that every day he's been bringing home piles of wood. If the economy fails and we need to heat our house with wood, we'll be in great shape. Today, Luke accused someone at school of stealing his airplane, so we went to check it out.
He had made another ramp, but someone else had taken the pile of wood and taped it together into a large pile. Luke made it into his ramp, and then we had to go home.
There was much sadness when we left without his structure. I may have convinced him that he can do a project with Daddy---we'll see. If it decreases the amount of wood that comes into the house, we'll be ahead, at least until the electricity grid fails.
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