Go to creative everything.

You see this giant pad? 

Yeah that one.

Well I have to just share thing simple thing with anyone who wants to take the time to read this. 

This is a giant newsprint paper pad. The sheets are huge and personally I think the more coloring room you have the better. 

My son knows now that when mommy takes out the giant pad of paper it's time to be creative. Usually he suggests a medium he wants to work with- yesterday it was play dough- the day before it was water colors... Now let me explain. 

Looks like I am a weirdo mom. I know; me saying my son experiements in different "mediums" sounds like I'm crazy and some sort of a hipster. But only having a single form of expression gets pretty boring. A medium is basically different creative forms- clay, painting, pastels, linear work, there are so many different ways to use different styles of creativity and expression. I bet you wouldn't consider snow a medium. Letting your kid go outside accompanied by yourself and just letting them build something. Building and playing with Legos is also another medium and does help build creativity. But I digress. 

Back to the giant pad: 

My son chose playdough yesterday and naturally I grabbed the big pad and flipped it open to a clean page- and this is why-

Playing with play dough on carpet or a counter scares me a little. 1. Playdough gets into carpet (and stays fairly easy) 2. Counters tend to be up high and you just plain have to be more careful. I feel like you don't get as wide of a range of motion if you wanted to go edge to edge.    

Now I'm speaking in terms of a toddler- if you have a 12 year old it might be easier to work on a counter. It's all based on how you feel your child will do. Or some families are lucky enough to have a "craft" table which [i am so jealous]. 

This is what our playing with play dough on the pad looked like

We also have painted 

And colored 

All within a giant pad of paper. 

By far my favorite purchase ever and if you can find something similar go for it!! The bigger the better! 

When you lovely folks find your giant pad to do works on ---what did you use it for?!