Who needs expensive toys when
you’ve got a lump of expanded polystyrene, some old wooden kebab skewers and an
imagination? I watched this lad for a minute or so and he clearly had a purpose
behind his construction. It might have been a house or perhaps a car that he
was making but actually could have been almost anything else, I’m afraid his
imagination (and concentration) was working on a different level to mine.
Not having children of my own I
had never really thought about the nature of toys and how modern ones tend to
direct the child’s play. This boy is educating himself in terms of using his
own unconstrained imagination, planning and the practical mechanics of actually
making something. He also educated me. Thanks, kid.
Photograph taken at Chatuchak
Weekend Market, Bangkok, Thailand
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