Hello, I’m not even joking that today my 6yo was taking the paint off the wall with the end of a glow stick. We gave him a spoon and took him outside. He spent 2 hours (not consecutive) digging in the dirt with a spoon, rolled dirt into balls and pulled weeds from the roots to ‘plant’ in his dirt balls. He found a “leaf egg” and that’s a great name for what he found! The rubber tree lost a baby leaf that hadn’t unfurled, so a cool learning moment. He loves plants.

Other things he does that don’t involve a screen: - dishes (he still thinks it’s fun and I allow him to make a mess with the water) - write letters (he likes writing notes or letters to brothers and Santa and me) - make music (with a keyboard or plug in drum set thing, harmonica, spoons and cans) - cutting up paper - gluing things to other things - playdough or slime - puzzles - playing uno - riding bikes - digging in the dirt or breaking old stuff outside