Kimi started with his deep interest with country flags when he was just a little over 2 years old. It started when he stumbled upon a 14-minute video of the country flags in Youtube.
Whenever this particular video would come up he would then get up and dance in front of the television. Mind you, it was not even a danceable background music. Nonetheless, he would still dance as if it was a party music.
A little over two months ago Kimi did not have any art materials. I initially thought that it would be hard to maintain a home that has paints, crayons and markers.
I have only known about the term ‘open-ended play’ lately. What lured me in to jump in the bandwagon is the promise that if I only acquire toys for Kimi that would encourage open-ended play then I would not have to buy as much toys as I initially think I would as these toys are usually applicable for a wide-range of age group and does unleash a child’s creativity and imagination.
This is the first setup I did of Kimi’s shelves. I did this roughly 2 months ago when I started reading about the different teaching methods (eg. Montessori, Waldorf) It is not much but the effect that organising his shelves had on me was tremendous. I felt very happy and pleased with this!
There were a few things I did after realising that I had the wrong mindset about accumulating toys.
