Myself, my husband and my two young children just came back from a trip to the cinema to watch Fantastic Four:The Rise of the Silver Surfer.

During the last 30 mins of the showing our son, who isn’t three yet, started to get bored and twitchy and noisy with it. I tried to placate him but he seemed to increase in volume if anything.

In desperation to keep him silent I was forced to ‘channel’ my creative talents in the art of ‘model making’ and fashioned Fantastic Four characters out of the cardboard from our sweet tubs - this did indeed keep him happy (and more importantly quiet) for the end of the film.

The question is, who is more creative?
Me for creating toys that whilst horribly fashioned (it was dark!!), along with my explanation to him of how they may be used, were clearly creative enough to keep a young boy amused for 30 mins and his sister eyeing them jealously from the next seat. Or my son for being creative enough to build a story and game out of such monstrosities!?

The photograph above of my creations show Johny Storm with his tail of flames, and alongside him a deformed surfboard - I explained to my son when fixed to the base of the ‘fire man’ as he called him, would convert this character into the Silver Surfer himself!! Two toys for one, a virtual ‘transformer’ of a toy in fact!

Next to this you will see Mr Fantastic himself with his leg stretched out in the manner of the dance scene early on in the film. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough card remaining to make his arms and legs properly long, and thus this character unfortunately did little to impress my little man.

During the film my eldest (6) started leaning over demanding her own dolls as I fevered away ripping them into form whilst trying to watch the end of the film at the same time.

I told her to watch the film, but when we were leaving she managed to get hold of the stretch man and spent the walk back to the card brandishing a square of cardboard at me nagging for the rock man (called ‘Thing’)….but I refused…I’d had enough of fashioning poor[quality Fantastic Four merchandise for one evening.

Amanda
xx

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