The Game
A story about how a small plastic container turned into our family after dinner game
I was doing dishes. BW was in the living room and the child was in the kitchen just keeping herself busy drawing and dancing and being happy as she is.
I was about to toss out recycle a small plastic container with a lid that before dinner had some Couscous in, and now it was empty and destined to the recycle bin. On a whim, I asked the child if she wanted it to play with/hold stuff/whatever.
She jumped at it and got to peeling off the sticker. That actually was the entertainment for a good 20 minutes - there were little pieces of sticker on the floor everywhere but that’s the price you pay for an entertained child.
As I was cleaning up, I found the lid and offered it to her. This changed everything and she went to get this new plastic vessel filled with crayons and trinkets right away.
Then when I thought she was done, she had an idea and asked me for a box and I went downstairs and got her one and went back to the dishes or whatever I was doing. I come back into the kitchen and she has drawn numbers on every side of the box.
We have a dice now - made from a cardboard box. We also have a trinket jar as the prize. We just need a few pieces of paper on the floor to step on and we have a life-sized board game with real people as the pieces.
She wrote start on one piece and finish on the last piece of paper with the couscous award weighing down the finish piece - and you have a game that’s fun for all ages.
And this folks is how we’ve been spending our weeknight evenings.
tonight she made the game harder - the 4th piece is colored as mud and if you land there you have to go back to the start. I think the game is rigged because I was back at the starting line 4 times in a row tonight. I don’t think the dice is up to regulation gaming standards.
We cancelled Netflix - this is more fun.
Keep rolling the dice,
TH and Co.