WHAT DO YOU SEE?
I see a spaceship. I see a the head of a dashing dinosaur opening his mouth. I see a chubby bird. I see a drowning sheep. What do you see?
Cloud-watching is such a relaxing pastime, isn't it? I can spend a whole afternoon watching clouds changing shapes as they calmly float by (usually I'd grudually fall asleep). If you have children with you, such afternoon wouldn't be so quiet. They'd bombard you with everything new that they see in the sky, which changes by seconds; and certainly, you'd be amazed by what your little cloud dreamers can see! "Look! Mama, there's a butterfly!" "Where?" "THERE, it has 5 wings!!!....oh wait, it's turning into a lipstick....but it's white...." etc, etc. we all get the picture! =) Unlike looking at a painting in an art gallery, interpreting a cloud cannot go wrong because it doesn't come with captions. We can let our imagination go wild when we look at a cloud; and the great thing is that no one has to see what we see, but no one can say what we see and think is "wrong."
What do you think of THIS cloud then? =)
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The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation has a site for children called Invention at Play. Parents often forget the importance of play as children's schedule are filled up by different kinds of activities. To children, cloud-watching should be something that they do often - their creativity will surely blossom if they can travel to that secret imaginative world of their own! The website offers a few online games, and the game CLOUD DREAMER is what inspired me to write this blog! =) It's fun, try it!
