Play time!

I like doing models and crafts but I cannot afford to buy them a lot of times.So a few years back I started doing paper models and crafts.They are cheap and alot can be printed on computer paper or cheap card stock.Even having to go to a print shop they are are not that expensive.
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2024/list_15_1.html
http://robertabaird.com/fun.htm
http://papermatrix.wordpress.com/theatre/
http://www.billybear4kids.com/worksheet ... lPlayHouse
Play time so let's play!
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Watcheroflights

I opened the link with a paper doll and remembered just how fun it was to make clothes for them! I've been actually thinking about starting to make paper dolls again, just like I took up crocheting last year because I have good memories of it, even though it was a little boring. Thanks for posting

I wanta play! Thanks! I used 2 enjoy putting puzzles together and Im gonna clear off my counter and get a puzzle 2 put together again. Also i have thought it would b fun 2 use different font colors when i post, but i cant figure out how 2 get it 2 work. Help anyone? When i click on font colour an then click the color i want it just fills in with that color # instead of changing 2 that color.
Also looking forward 2 doing more poem write ing 2 post on the Art board site.
Ya more play time. Feeling better just thinking about it!

watcheroflights wrote:I like doing models and crafts but I cannot afford to buy them a lot of times.So a few years back I started doing paper models and crafts.They are cheap and alot can be printed on computer paper or cheap card stock.Even having to go to a print shop they are are not that expensive.
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2024/list_15_1.html
http://robertabaird.com/fun.htm
http://papermatrix.wordpress.com/theatre/
http://www.billybear4kids.com/worksheet ... lPlayHouse
Play time so let's play!
Us
Watcheroflights

can get some craft things at the thrift shop,,cheap,, alot of things you can use out of your own imagination also... fun find some neat stuff sometimes.

That's a cool theatre! Awesome links! Thx!

Thanks for the links.

We've been playing and doing art a lot this week. I bought a bag of sponges, some cheapo paint and let everyone go to town with that. I also bought some cheapo pastels and let everyone draw.

its lots of fun to fly kites do you ever fly kites i flew one the other day and we had so much fun-SammyLake

I bought some lego blocks for anyone young to play with. As soon as they arrived yesterday my twin alters laid claim to them because I had promised them a toy -- they requested drums, ACK! -- after I ordered and forgot about the legos. They played for hours last night. After they had finished I tried to take back over, Hansel closed his eyes as if to let me, but I couldn't take over! Hansel giggled at getting away with something naughty (staying in the body even after I asked them to let me take over), then he passed off to the other twin, who did the same thing. What, they're acting like four-year-olds! Well, the alter version since real four-year-olds don't go slipping in and out of being out front.

I know they're littles but until last night I hadn't gotten it through my thick skull that these kids need to play and have fun. I have let them into the body when they ask, even when it might be embarrassing, and they've gone walking outside. But that isn't enough for a child alter. They need to play so that they're happy, not just traumatized alters.

I've heard of people in biographies and on the board letting their child alters play. I've let my 11-year-old watch videos and listen to him laugh for a couple hours. He is totally juvenile in his responses, but it was something I could at least sort of relate to. Four-year-old hands learning to push lego blocks together and being completely absorbed and thrilled for hours, giggling with glee at points, is something I'm finally getting is healing and necessary.

I need more toys and I need to give them time to play, no matter how silly it feels at times to my rational, adult mind. All of my alters keep complaining to me -- in their own way -- that I know they're alters but I still think they're me. The middles and adults by telling me directly, again and again, the littles by crying when they sense I'm dismissing them as not real or something. Of course, they are me from one point of view, we're all "me." But they're totally not from another. I need to keep learning to treat them with the respect that separate individuals deserve. I really believe this is a necessary step, for their mental health (and thus mine), and if there's any hope that I'll be able to heal their individual traumas (and heal my system's traumas).

Plus, feeling your body experience the wonder of being a child is infinitely amazing. I don't know if non-multiples, even while doing "inner child" exercises, can really experience this as directly. It would be interesting to find out. It's one of the few aspects of being multiple that I'm glad to have experienced.

Johnny-Jack
First, very outstanding post! Way cool feeling when the little ones come out and play. One feels they are happy. For me, I get a warm feeling and become light hearted.
Johnny-Jack, for adults child's play is good. Studies have shown it helps adults reduce stress and improve creative. So do not feel silly, relax and go with the flow. Child's play is not only good for us loons but for non-DID adults as well.
I went out and helped a school the other night. We showed the children the Moon and the planet Jupiter. It was a large crowd there and as I tried to start the little talk I give as they stepped up to the telescope I became scared and frightened. I always become scared and frightened speaking in public. My hands were shaking and voice would crack as I tried to speak. Thomas Lee, Clair, the little one, Tommy came out and saved me. Tommy was in heaven with all the other children to play with at the telescope. For me I became calm, did my job as technical support and let the others run with it. I have not felt this good in months. After it was over I had a very light hearted feeling, all warm and fuzzy .Woke up the next morning still beaming. So whether it is the little or olders sometime letting them out to enjoy the world with you can be a good thing and you can have fun together without it turning into a case of trauma and fear.
So let’s us all play without shame! It's a good thing.
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Watcheroflights

I bought a puzzle today. I really like it. Its of all these open cans of paint, all a different color. Dividedtruth89, or anyone else that can, will u please tell me how 2 access the Font color on this link 2 b able 2 post n different color ink. Please. Thanks. Play time!