Robot

I found a neat art studio for kids that offers a variety of summer classes.  Looking at the class offerings, I knew I had to sign Jack up for the class "building a robot out of recyclable material" since he can spend hours a day building robots with his blocks. When I dropped him off for the two hour class, I stayed a few minute to make sure he was comfortable and would be fine alone. Miss Donna, his teacher, told him to start thinking about his robot and to look through her bins and piles of recyclables for items he wanted to use. The first two things he grabbed was two metal cans which he immediately knew he wanted to use as ears. I could just see his wheels turning as he thought of the robot and he was so excited to look through everything and decide what he wanted to use. When I came back at the end of class and he showed me his robot, I almost cried. I was amazed that what he envisioned out of all the garbage/recyclables that I would consider "useless" was this....

You probably can't tell from the picture, but the "legs" are the springs from a mattress and the "feet" are the inserts to a pair of shoes. The other item that really amazed me was that the "hair" is the fruit/vegetable sack. He decided what he wanted to use and where to put the items and Miss Donna used her glue gun and a lot of tape to get them to stay. The robot is standing proud in the corner of Jack's room. I smile every time I walk into his room and see what he created.