Play

Play was such an important aspect of my growing up.  I spent hours outside playing with my cousins.  We even ate at the picnic table outside.  My cousin, Dawn, and I spent a whole summer creating a hotel for worms.  We built this fort around the worm hotel which was basically made of dirt we molded with water.  We would collect worms all day to put in the worm hotel in the evenings.  The next morning we would be so upset that someone had "stolen" our worms.  We spent the whole summer trying to figure out what happened to our worms.  Then one day we noticed the worms digging into the ground and disappearing.  We finally realized our worm hotel didn't have a floor.  And the worms were escaping back into the earth by digging tunnels in the ground.  We solve the great worm escape by filling a box full of dirt and putting our worms inside.  We put our "worm box" in the middle of our fort for safe keeping.  We learned so much that summer.  What is your most memorable play experience as a child?