One of the things I like most about children is their capacity to be amazed and see beauty in all things. Unfortunately, over time we end up losing that beautiful and pure quality, but it is beautiful to see them admire everything around them through their innocent gaze.
Among its many "manias" there is one that makes me especially funny and that is when they share with me that incredible object they just found, or they give me something and ask me to "keep it forever and ever". Do you also happen to you? In the end we have decided to create a treasure boxWell, if it is important for them to keep it, who am I to say otherwise?
Stones
Surely the stones are one of the treasures best kept in any house with children. My children have a full little box, and every time we take a walk in the countryside or go to the park, the collection increases.
We have stones of all kinds and sizes, although what most excites them is to take stones from special places, such as the bank of a river or the decorative gravels that grandparents have in the garden.
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And on the same level of worship that the stones are dried leaves and sticks. And, what child does not enjoy collecting the fallen leaves of the trees while walking on the street?
Every morning, on the way to school, my two little ones are made with a good arsenal of dried leaves and twigs of different shades that take their teachers with the excuse of "Decorate the class or prepare some fall crafts". When it is time to return to the classroom after this vacation, we will see how the change of season is taken ...
Wild flowers
But before we want to realize, the parks and green spaces will be filled again with wildflowers, and the corsages of daisies and poppies will fill my house again.
Because when one of my children shows up with a bunch of freshly cut flowers, the first thing I should do is "put them in water so they don't die". So it's time to look for a glass and put them to soak, although some arrive without a stem, practically dry because they have been in their pocket for hours or even with a visiting bug. Prohibited to throw them in the trash! Never. Never.
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My two young children are sticker fans. They love sticker notebooks, chrome albums and, in general, any sticker they can remove from somewhere and stick it on the face or nails (like the stickers that some tangerines bring in the peel).
The problem comes when they realize that after several times sticking and peeling off the sticker in question, it stops sticking to the paper or the skin, and of course: the drama arises! That's when they give me the sticker or the chrome to keep it safe ... wrinkled and sometimes even broken. But for them it is not an old paper, it is their sticker! and don't even think about throwing it away.
Food wrappers or bricks
When my oldest son was three years old, the containers of infatile yogurts caught his attention. Due to the allergy to cow's milk proteins I suffered, I could not consume this type of products and maybe that's why the bricks caught his attention so much.
So when they had lunch at school and a classmate had a yogurt of this style, the empty container always ended up in my son's backpack, as he managed to take it out of the bin when the teacher did not look and keep it as the largest of his treasures
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Any small thing, that shines or has a special color It quickly becomes a valuable collector's item for my kids. In this category would enter the plates, buttons, bottle caps, plastic pieces, broken zippers, pennies ...
The number of "treasures" with these characteristics that children with the ability to find lying in the street, and that they admire and want to keep as if they were something extraordinary. For them it is not garbage or a lost object without any value ... for them it is much more!
Plasticine pieces brought from school
And another of the treasures that my daughter has incalculable value is the plasticine of the school. I don't know what will be special or different about what we have at home, but she loves it, and every time they make modeling clay at school he puts a small ball in his pocket which then shows me excited when he gets home.
The problem comes when you forget to take it out of my pocket and empty it before putting the clothes in the washing machine ...
These are the seven fetish objects that my children collect or have collected at some time. To all this is added, of course, the dozens of drawings they make per day and also want to keep. Do you feel identified?
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