@ultramarina: I've noticed the same thing that once I get them away from screens, they end up making time machines out of large boxes, etc. I was in Africa once and saw village children had constructed elaborate cars with working steering mechanisms, made completely from discarded wire and plastic bottles.
@CCN: That's hilarious...I have to agree about the observation that through creating her own she somehow let go of the idea of getting a real one. It was clearly therapeutic for her.
@petunia: DD used to do this stuff a lot more often, so this recent creation was an unusual sight...I know I stopped doing this sort of thing around age 11, but then that was when I got my first computer that I disappeared into.
