The Mom I Want to Be

 

Each summer my children build a city by painting and cutting and pasting empty cereal and shoe boxes. We have also used empty plastic containers and the centers from paper towel rolls. The kids work on it as the mood strikes them. The people and animals are made from clothespins, small plastic bottles, or clay. Flowers and trees are created the same way. At the end of summer we take a picture of their masterpiece and dismantle it so they can start anew. They have made jungles, igloos, Ewok villages — all out of household junk.