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???

Ds made a vacuum cleaner out of boxes and tubes when he was in reception.He was very meticulous, he had plans and everything. It was amazing. . His teacher still talks about it now- 10 years on( I see her a lot, dd2 is at the school, she's not as creative ).

If only at nearly 15 I could get him to be so enthusiastic

The worst thing he bought home (although it was very clever and all, and a lot of work had gone into it) was a nearly lifesize fucking papier mache giraffe in pre-school. He had had no input in making it, it was a prop from something connected to the adjoining church- - but when the end of term came, and they were doling stuff out, he was the only was daft enough who put his hand up.

6 months I lived with it. It was HUGE.

it went to live on a farm

Sigh - this is my dd - she would fill her pockets with sand from the sandpit just in case they ran out, she would bring home empty boxes because we had the same ones at home and wanted to add to the ‘collection’ she’s 10 now and still has collections of twigs, dead leaves and lumps of concrete . I just love her for uniqueness and then quietly manoeuvre objets d’art out of the house.

I am now remembering having a human-sized cardboard model of the Ancient Egyptian god Anubis in the shed from when I was 9 until my parents finally threw it away over a decade later... but that was a work of ART!!

Secretly put it in the bin when he isn't looking. Take a picture of the model if you want to be on the safe side.

DS (ever the war enthusiast) once made a tank out of massive cardboard boxes with eggboxes glued on the sides and a wrapping paper cardboard tube sticking out of the end for blowing people to smithereens.

Imagine my joy when we had to heft that home from school.
Sadly it was quite delicate and had to be "stored in the loft so it didn't get broken"

I found it when I moved house last year, and offered it to DS (now 33) to store at his house. He was really pleased to see it again.

His wife looked at it in horror and said 'God you were a weird child, that's going straight to the tip'

Ok I take it back, after demonstrating how "useful" this measuring device is I'm a little more proud than I felt on the school run having to walk home clutching this bizarre ensemble of items.

I love that the giraffe went to live on a farm.

DD(7) still has a box of 'tablets' (cat food box full of milk lids) that she made / collected age 5 at school. It is more precious to her than most of the stuff I've actually spent money on.

I got into trouble once from DH for letting DS who was 5 at the time go shopping after school with an Alpen box taped to his back. He also had a cracker box taped to one of his forearms.....or should I say a jet pack and controller!

He didn't complain whilst shopping and it drew plenty of wanted attention by fellow shoppers!

Now my 3 yo DD brings home about 10 paintings/drawings a day from nursery. They are all lovely but I have to throw a lot away when she isn't there!

Younger dd, now in her 30s, came home from nursery with a painting that was basically a brown splodge, splodged all the way to the edges of the paper. My favourite toy was its title. Apparently it was her BAG.

She went on to be one of those girls who like bags. I still remember this painting fondly (but threw it out).

Reminds we of the time I dropped my young son at nursery.
I came home and spent over an hour brushing up / raking leaves.
Went to pick my son up and he comes out with leaves glued to a piece of paper but I was amused to be handed a bag of leaves by the group leader so he could make something at home

Pahahahaha I'm laughing because the amount of times this happened to me. My boys were the worst, the eldest used to see the junk as precious treasure and find the biggest cereal box he could and stuff as many things inside. His teachers must have thought he had nothing at home to play with because they let him. Honestly I don't know how any other children used to get to make any horrific nonsense... oops I mean lovely models.