Episodes in the Childrens Garden 2010/05/08

Gooey Yellow Clay
As the wheelbarrow filled with sticky yellow clay subsoil, the kids meandered over, looking bored.

Still not done digging post holes, I hoped the kids would amuse themselves for another few minutes.

“Why is the soil yellow,” asked Emma. So I told her about topsoil and subsoil…and how clay was sticky, and used to make pottery—not unlike the Play-Doh they use in the house. She touched it. “Quinn,” she said, “touch this, it’s sticky.”

And so it began. Two kids delightedly squealing while squishing wet clay in a wheelbarrow. And how did it end?

(OK, this is my fault…) Yellow clay rolled into pretend dog dirt, as a surprise for mom.


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