Honestly, I was a little affected by the amount of screen time the boys had. Recently, my eldest accidentally downloaded a game called Block Craft 3D in daddy's phone and he started playing and really, like really loves the game. You know, when it is fall in love at first sight, you can't seem to forget about it. He could go on and on whole day talking about it and begged to play on it eventhough he had played for 2 hours earlier. I also could not bring myself to delete the game, it would crush his hearts to pieces, and he had spent some efforts to build two buildings in his village. Oh my! What a dilemma.
The other one only follow his brother. If the big brother on screen, he also wants to follow. Usually, they were able to set a daily limit, but not until the love and passion for his new game Block Craft 3D.
This called for a change.
I saw two sets of paper craft from a store two days ago and thought they serve as the best substitute. I still let him play but I had talked to him about setting limit, also do not strain the eyes muscle, also balance with some reading and some fun activities at home like he used to do. He agreed and also acknowledged he was 'obsessed' by it. He was glad and thanked me that I would not delete it. Hugged me with thankfulness somemore. Awww....! Forever my baby. And we did craft today, and he successfully press the stop button after playing Block Craft without grumpiness and moved on happily to Paper Craft with real hands', eye-coordination skill.
I bought two sets of the paper crafts — Animals and Vehicles. At super cheap price from Mr. DIY store.
It looked easy but actually needed some skills to glue the parts to correct place to make a nice shape. The animals one was way easier than thr vehicles. After a while trying, I suggested them to use double-sided tape instead of glue as the glue could not seem to glue properly. The eldest needed to cut the size of the double-sided tape for the parts to be glued and of course, we needed to help the youngest one who still improving his scissors hand-eye coordination.
And the first animal a sucess, the simplest among all - CHICKEN!
They actually loved it and decided to do more...
In the process...
Little one asked for photo..
Alligator done. Green bus done. Now onto blue car...
Pickup truck for this one
And we had a family of animals and vehicles. They said they wanted to build a village using the paper animals and vehicles, just like in Block Craft 3D mobile game LOL.
The eldest one continued his mission on making more... NOW A TRAIN.
Looks like this is a superb substitute for handphone game. I am happy mama! Hope you are well from your end.
❤️Love from me❤️