Boo and Yeubi got straight to work. First of all Boo seperated out all the pink and white ones from one box and kept them seperate. Yeubi set to work trying to pick all our locks with them - thanks to Enid Blyton's "five find-outers" series.
Then Boo got out a magnet and dipped it in a tub of paper clips and played with this for ages.
I didn't manage to get photos of Yeubi's various contraptions but he was absorbed for over an hour.
Boo and I moved on to make a hanging sculpture which I had seen in Steven Caney's Toy Book. We hung a pice of string from a shelf and tied a bent paper clip to it. Then we proceeded to add more and more paperclips downwards and side ways. Boo developed the idea by trying to connect the hanging paperclips to more than one other and finally re-introduced the magnet. We hung the finished piece at the window. It is only small but represents a lot of work, trial and error, and concentration as well as a great deal of fun.
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