Build a Windmill With Your Kid

Sometimes toys, tales or cartoons aren`t enough to amuse or educate your kid. They are always curious and looking forward to exploring more. I personally try not to leave my kid in front of the cartoon for hours. He likes to watch car stories and his one of the best series is “Poli the Robocar”. He loves cars a lot. We have too many car toys in the house. Some of them functioning fine and some have no one of the tires or one of the parts.

We usually play together and in some of the activity hours, we try to define a purpose to our game, so that it will have a start and finish and I can also dedicate a free time for myself :))

You might have seen bamboo sticks or you have it already. It enables you to build whatever object you want to. A tower, rocket, chair, table, house, a car so it`s up to you or your kid`s imagination. You just need to attach sticks by using the binding part.

Yes, we simply built a windmill but the nuance is that it has also a turning part. My kid loves windmills and wherever he sees them he is always excited and tells a story from one of his cartoon series about how his hero has fixed the windmill so that village`s electricity continued powering.

But the time we finished building the windmill it didn`t satisfy him that much. Because its wings are supposed to turn by themselves.

Yes, now it is your time as a parent to show up and be his hero in this story! I consulted with my kid and asked; “What do you think? How can we make its wings turn it’s around? Do we need another part apart from these bamboo sticks or should we make it turn by using our hands?”

I asked him if he has a toy but they should not functioning well so he can sacrifice the toy so that we can reach the motor part and try to embed it here on the windmill.

He liked the idea and wanted to share the toy with me. We opened the toy together carefully and took out the part which we wanted. He enjoyed a lot and didn`t leave anywhere until we finish the windmill with the latest version which we added a motor part and a switch.

He also learned the tool names and their usage purposes which we used during this adventure. Screwdriver, switch, battery, wire etc.

As I said in the beginning; kids enjoy creating rather than having something readymade. Let them create by themselves something unique.