Giving Our Daughters God’s Word—Plain and Simple

Have you ever watched as a toddler waddled right past the brightly colored, singing, spinning and jumping circus, also known as a bouncer, in order to grab a piece of white notebook paper? Only for you to witness the loads of fun they can have just from crumbling, ripping and gnawing on such a basic and bare material?

Paper. Nothing complicated. Just paper.

Similarly, my 9-year old recently came to me and asked if she could have an empty brown box that had once been used for a package. When I asked what she wanted it for, she replied, “I want to build a store.”

And that is exactly what she did.

Using only markers, scissors, glue and paper, I watched as she transformed that useless cardboard into a lovely creation. She colored and cut out paper images to create storefronts, she designed window displays and she even placed a paper staircase in in the middle of the box.

From there she welcomed her dolls in and they shopped! I should add that this all happened right next to our three-story dollhouse and containers of Legos.

She used a box.

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