Free time - what would you do?

In her August blog as Scrapbooker of the Year 2006 for Creating Keepsakes, C D Muckosky suggests that "free time is a state of mind" (check out 30 August) .

She mentions that time in infant class when the teacher would say "it's free time" in other words, it is a time when you can freely choose what you want to do - to play, to experiment, to get dirty if you want, to play with things you wouldn't at any other time - because it is free time.

What if you had free time? What if you had permission to have free time?

What if I were to say to you... "This half day - this morning (or afternoon, or evening) - is free time, and you not only don't have to but MUST NOT think about anything else!"

What would you do with that time?

And it doesn't have to be scrapping - in fact for this exercise I'd like you not to think about scrapping, and to let your imagination go - transport and money are no problem - what would you choose to do? You're not allowed to do nothing, either, no sitting on beaches or going to sleep - assume you are rested and relaxed and raring to DO something - what might it be?

Jot down what you'd like to do: e.g.,

Go out on a bike
Play with paint
Swim in a river
Play guitar
Bake butterfly cakes

See how many things you can think of to take up your free time.

Two possibilities for the LO now:

First LO - find a picture of you - preferably a bit thoughtful - and do a LO entitled "I wish I were...." and make sure the words "Free time" are somewhere on the LO as well as the journalling you just did....

Second LO - go DO one of those things and make sure you get a photo of some kind either of you doing it or (if it's not possible - a picture representing the activity).