Crafts - reward motivation

Ellie normally loves her schoolwork.  She greets me every day with a blow by blow commentary on what she learned, sometimes interjecting her progress in the latest video game challenge.  However, from time to time, she needs an extra incentive to stick with it - perhaps she wants to work only on her favorite subject or we went on a trip and she wants to stay in "holiday mode".  Whatever the distraction, she always has time for her craft.

This has become a nice way to keep her motivated - "one section of schoolwork then you can build one of your craft projects"

The collection of little objects that have been constructed over the years is growing so large that we had to say goodbye to a few boxes of them.  To ease the pain of sending these little projects to the great toy bin in the sky we let her take some pictures of them.

To my delight I discovered that she did some videos as well.

Here are a few demo's of her work.  The picture are too numerous to post here to we posted them in a Photobucket album at:

http://photobucket.com/ellie5000