Children express their creativity in surprisingly delightful ways when given the opportunity.
But the ice kept slipping onto the ladle, and the adult server had quite a hard time trying to keep a piece of ice out of the child's plastic cup. The children crowded around, fascinated by this problem. Sondra, the birthday girl, asked her mom to use a Swiss Army knife to puncture a hole in the bottom of one plastic cup and then use that one on top of the punch cup to keep the ice out. Artistic expression, something that is also distinctly human, needs to be fostered in early childhood. If a child's artistic impulses are nurtured when he's young, he'll develop the self-esteem he needs to continue to be creative as he gets older.