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A Ribbon Dog Made By JDaniel

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Sometimes you start on a project and it becomes something totally different than you had planned. I pulled out some ribbon for JDaniel and I to thread through a blueberry container. I thought it would be great for holding cookies we were going to decorate and take to my mom for Valentine’s Day.

Making a Ribbon Dog

After I clipped off some of the ribbons off its spool so that we could weave it, a long strand of ribbon was left hanging off the spool. JDaniel picked up the spool of ribbon and announced that it was a dog. The long ribbon I had left hanging off the spool was his leash I was told.

Pretend Play

JDaniel started to help me weave the ribbon, but soon lost interest and started playing with his new dog Parker. He named his ribbon dog Parker after his friend Jake’s dog.
Parker needed to be walked around the house to get exercise. Then he was very hungry after his walk and needed to eat. JDaniel took the blueberry container off the table and announced it was Parker’s bowl. Ribbon dogs must be on a special diet. JDaniel had to prepare Parker’s meal using a variety of measuring spoons. He couldn’t just dump food into Parker’s bowl.

 

JDaniel cooking for Parker the ribbon dog
The ribbon dog eating

Pretend Play Continued

When JDaniel went down for his nap, I tucked Parker away with the wrapping paper in an upstairs closet. I didn’t realize JDaniel would want to continue to play with him.
After eating his “I took a good nap snack”, I was asked where his dog was. At first, I didn’t understand and tried giving him one of his stuffed dogs. I was informed the ribbon roll dog Parker was what he wanted. He was dismayed to find Parker had been moved to a closet.
Later in the day, JDaniel’s friend Nathan came over to play. I asked JDaniel to show him his dog, Parker. Nathan wanted to know where the dog was all he saw was some ribbon on cardboard. JDaniel took his comment in stride and informed him Parker was a pretend dog. Nathan shrugged and started pulling Parker around for a walk just as JDaniel had.
All he needed was a little help in seeing this ribbon roll like a dog.

 
This post is linked to Mrs. Matlock’s Alphabe Thursday. It is R week. 
 
 
 

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Comments

  1. I love it! It takes so little to drive our kids’ imagination…. no money required!
    Our wee guy is the same (as were the others when they were younger) – cardboard boxes, of course, were favourites, but anything would work: vacuum cleaner attachments can be spears, guns, towers, wands…. on and on it goes!
    I did love this post though, because I especially love dogs! x

  7. We can have so much with watching our children being imaginative and creative.

    I love it.

  9. So cute! I love how imaginative he is! Tobin and him would get along so well! People think we are crazy when Tobin will come give me an imaginary ball and want me to throw it to him. He also builds and knocks down imaginary blocks. So why we have a house full of toys, I don’t know…obviously all we need is some ribbon and nothing! LOL.

  12. That’s too cute! Kids love to pretend, and if encouraged to do so, they’ll run with it!

  21. What an imaginative mind JDaniel has, and I love the story..I think children are the most creative people in the world..

  27. JDaniel4’sMom,
    I would like to invite you for a little visit to my sidebar of favourite posts. It is the last one called Wishes. You will not believe it. It may sound awfully familiar. Now my youngest was older, but still. Deja vu.
    Dana

  30. Your JDaniel is certainly headed in the right direction…and good for you to encourage the development of imagination…

  31. The creativity of children never fails to inspire. I was so happy to read this story. Thanks for sharing it with us.

    Becky

  34. That is totally adorable. Also he’s maturing, he’s developing the make believe and that’s so much fun to watch

  35. Aaaah! to see the world through little eyes again makes me smile : ) if only we could bottle a touch of that creativity & imagination!!

  38. Such delightful imaginations children have. Who knows where this will lead him in life. It will be interesting to see what profession he will choose. It is lovely the way you nuture this in him.

  43. Is there anything sweeter than the imagination of a child? I love how you nurture his creativity.

    He is such a funny little guy! It will be interesting to see where this creative streak takes him in life.

    Thanks for a really sweet stop this week on our little journey through Alphabe-Thursday’s letter “R”.

    A+

  45. JDaniel is too cute 🙂 I love his imagination and how he never forgot about his pretend dog. It’s great to watch how amazingly creative our kids can be at this age isn’t it?

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