Innovative ideas

Sea fire fighter plane cum sledge fire fighter plane:(named by him)
He designed a fire fighter plane which can land on sea and as well sledge down the snowy mountain.He imagined our bed as the snowy mountain.I was in a exalted state and felt good about his idea.

Sea fire fighter plane...

Into deep thinking...

Sledge fire fighter plane entering the snow cave...

Fire fighter helicopter:

Necessity is the mother of invention:

He wanted a lego passenger plane for a long time, but its not available in market. we all compromised for cargo plane set.He liked it and did lots of imaginary plays. Later he converted the cargo plane to Air bus by removing certain parts and adding windows into it. Could see the happiness in his eyes and a triumphant smile.

Passengers entering into the plane..

The Cargo plane got converted to passenger plane...

Space shuttle carrying mars rover:

Cog wheel train and cable car set up:

British airways 4 engine plane:

Eureka Eureka

Our Junior Archimedes found that when he immersed his hands in the bucket full of water, the water level rose. He asked me why its happening? Later we explored and understood that the space occupied by hand displaced the water.He later explored with both hands, heavy objects,his legs etc.
From splashing of water he started to explore and asked why some objects sink down and others float in the tub.
We tried to explain him in simple words about density.
He explored n number of possibilities to find what kind of objects float. He understood that size, shape and weight of the object matters. He kept adding objects to find till how much weight it can float

Playing and learning:

Another day he was so excited to say me that an empty bottle on a plastic lid floats, but the water filled bottle makes the floating lid to sink. 

Empty bottle kept on the lid allows it to float..

Water filled bottle topples down the lid...

He filled water little by little to find out till what amount it floats.

Complexities of Science

Last week My  son was playing with the book 'The Alchemist ',rushing through the pages fast,in all directions and angles. Then started firing us with questions..
" why do we get air when I rush through the pages quickly?"
we explained him how the pages push the air out etc etc......
"how the wind is created from where it is coming?'
I explained him about the temperature diff,and how the wind is formed etc .. but for sure he is gonna dig more and end up with the pressure difference too.

Last week he was exploring optics...
Not sure how many of us had time to note these or explored....Most of the time we learnt how to enjoy and admire life from him.
Following are the questions he fired ...
"why is my hand looking smaller when i dip inside the water?"
"Why s your face looking triangle when i see you through this empty glass?"
" why is your face looking funny like Ravana's with 8 heads, when i see u through this water filled bottle ?"
"why do i see 2 spoons from this side of the glass tumbler, but actually 1 spoon is dipped inside water."
All the answers to his questions are related to refraction,reflection,angles,image formation etc etc.. I tried to explain him in simple terms...
Felt good about is understanding after this observation in bus while we were travelling.our bus stopped for few minutes and..
" mom look here, at this angle our bus looks smaller in those windows ?"
Yes what he noticed was correct from that angle the bus image formed on the glass panels of the shop was looking very small. To know his understanding asked him why .His answer was " its because of the light Falling into the glass,and these glasses are joined to each other like puzzle.from this angle the reflection looks smaller. " The bus started to move again....... Hope our journey of exploration continues .....

Creative Eye

Clips Airplane story:
It was a sunny day and my son was helping me in drying cloths. He was thinking deeply and asked me for some cloth clips to play with. I gave him and here is his airplane design. He used wheels of other toys and stuck it with cellophane tapes to the body of plane. Could see his pride after finishing this and was busy playing with the new plane in our backyard.

Space shuttle:

An empty kitchen tissue roll was tempting him a lot. He took it from the paper disposal bin in our home. My assumption was he might be making a telescope but the surprise was a space shuttle carrier.

He used the kinder joy chocolate cup as the entrance for the Astronauts to get inside the rocket. He used rubber bands and cellophane tapes to stick the space shuttle to the rocket body (tissue  roll). He used hot wheel cars as wheels for the rocket carrier. When i asked the rockets don't have wheels, his answer was, my rocket will have wheels, so that it can land smoothly in mars:-) . Imagination has no limitations and that is the way for  new inventions.

Nothing is useless:

Any waste item becomes a play item for my son.He recreates and enjoys making his own toys and stories. The only problem is my house is becoming junk yard.

Old toy box cover is converted to Basel Tram:

Thrown away thermocol gets converted into Sydney trailer bus.

Empty card board box turned into a car parking lot for his Airport:-). 

Want to watch a movie? Here is the Zoo movie running at our home theatre. He used CD cases,calendar and a shoe box to make this theatre.

Sneak through the entrance to glimpse at the movie screen.