Well, the other day, Ryan and I chanced upon a packet of DIY 'Crystal Mining' at NTUC. Ryan, being an avid reader of anything to do with geographical, made sure that his mum bought him the packet before leaving the supermarket. He started his crystal mining activity the moment we reached home. The packet had a detailed instruction on mining and a good descriptive on crystals and rocks. For a child, the 'artificial' mining was interesting. The process of digging, sawing, scrapping, cleaning was more than a play thing. As a matter of fact, it was real work. Ryan imagined himself being an archaeologist or a volcanoist (??) and wanted to mine the biggest crystal. It took him more than 3 hours to mine about 4 pieces of crystal-like rock from that big square rock , such patience is seldom found in him. After which, we need to surf the net for him to find out more on different types of rock and crystals.
Now he has a collection of stones and rocks with different texture, colouring and clarity.
My comment : Do not underestimate 'plaything' of today, they are SO EDUCATIVE ! Kid's desire for knowledge is so strong.
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