To be fed up of crap from school?

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I have one PFB DS. He's cute and lovely etc

But... came home from school carrying a yoghurt pot, loo roll and washing up box.

It was his junk modelling.

Which had no paint, glue, or anything on it so pretty much just rubbish

Last week I had the packing paper out of an amazon parcel come home with a tiny scribble in the corner

Why???

It's school's fault your child is shit at junk modelling?

I'm assuming he's in Reception which is still EYFS and all about participation and self-expression. He will grow out of this very tedious phase before long. Until then, suck it up. It's your turn.

I would generally put this sort of crap in the recycling almost straight away and my dd never noticed.

I cant imagine the school wants 30 of them cluttering up the classroom. Maybe by the end of the year the junk will look more like a model.

I used to say 'do you want to put this up in your room, or shall I photograph it and put the original in the bin'

I would imagine he had glue etc available and chose not to use them. But the school wants 30 of them even less than you want 1, so home they go.

Photograph it if he wants and then stick it in recycling.

You've got years and years of him bringing home "craft" that is little better than what you currently have, at least this one is easy to recycle!

He had done nothing to the items. Merely collected them.

he'll probably grow up to be a ground breaking sculptor

My daughter once came out of nursery with a chocolate box which had wool and crumpled up paper chucked in the segments with an old moisturiser box taped to it. I don’t know what it was meant to be, she doesn’t know what it was meant to be but I’ve kept it nonetheless.

Have you asked him about it? Maybe he can explain what it was supposed to be?

I'd only complain if he is 17 and doing his A levels

17 and doing A Levels :)

I understand you OP being fed up of this stuff. It sounds like he is not very good at junk modelling. But if it is what he has made, the staff are hardly going to want to hang on to it.

My first babysitting job was collecting a girl from nursery during the school holidays. Every day she made a cake - mushed up coconut, icing sugar, etc with her hands at the nursery. She frequently offered it to me. I would just say - lets save that for mummy to eat :)

Hahahahaaaa....this is my life. Dd (8) goes to after school at least once a week and comes home with something crappy crafty. Sometimes it's a scarf for me....which is a scrap of cloth, I wouldn't be seen dead in...or a suggestions box made out of a cereal box covered in bits of coloured paper...last week, she made me a dress, it doesn't fit, for shame. I bet the staff think it's hilarious to send her home with this shit. Dh doesn't bloody help either....ooh, your mum will love that! Won't you, mum? Fuck off DH

It develops fine motor skills and creative skills. One day it's junk modelling, then one day they might grow up to be an architect or aircraft design engineer or something.

But yes I agree it's a load of crap! I used to just smile sweetly and agree it was lovely, then sneak it into the recycling bin in a day or so when they'd forgotten about it

He's gotta start somewhere.

:) I remember doing jewellery making with young kids. Lots of the kids made jewellery for their mums. Yes I did have a laugh at the thought of mums having to pretend they loved their jewellery.

Try home-edding...then you get ALL the crafty crap and not just the selection so grim the school couldn't face disposing of it...

Ah remember the days well. Once they had been admired we used to photograph them and then Daddy* would take them to 'have at the office'. Sadly my children never got to go to his work to see his desk .

*other parent/guardian figures are available but in our house I worked from home and that would not achieve the same goal.

when I was 5 I spent hours sorting my precious wooden beads into colours and made my Grandma a necklace and matching bracelet - alternating three colours, three colours she wore all the time, one which matched her lipstick, sacrificing those beads forever, when normally I would make something, wear it, return the beads to the box and craft again. My grandma was aware of this, my precious beads had been to her house. She had repeatedly said "ooh make something nice for grandma". So I did. I posted my creation to her for her birthday (as grown ups post presents). Two days later. Two whole days later. so the day after my present arrived. She had taken it apart and put the beads on the extractor fan pull in the bathroom. I WAS DEVASTATED.

At least this way round he’s making the junk at school and bringing it home. Sooner or later you’re going to be given ‘creative’ homework, ie fashioning a jungle animal/local landmark/scale model of Boris Johnson at home, then you’ll long for the days the making had nothing to do with you and all you had to do was dispose of it.

It's been explained. Had him put it together...

It's a measuring tower!

Seems to involve dropping items into the loo roll to see if they fall off (they all do)

Well I would be questioning what he was doing during the junk modelling session - clearly not junk modelling.
I'd want to know if he was chatting or messing about, or whether he didn't understand what he was supposed to do.

Keep the bits he has brought home and give him some glue, paint etc to turn them into something that is still crap but crap with glue and paint on it more artistic.

You will miss it when he is past that stage - I fondly remember going out to the shops sporting jewellery made of glitter covered pasta. How people stared in envy !

You should gift them to other family members. This year some of the highlights I have received from my nieces were a bag of torn up bits of paper and an empty kitchen roll (allegedly a 'marble' run and 'marbles') and an empty cereal box stuck on top of another empty cereal box (a robot). Their mum includes a note with each gift which says 'no need to keep long term'...

He had done nothing to the items. Merely collected them.

Sorry, that made me roar! That's like something my DS would do - just assemble a load of junk, and then carry it round (in his case, for several weeks).

I usually say that’s lovely .... then put it in the recycling bin 😉

That's quite technically advanced I reckon. Display it with pride. STEM ready and all that.