I remember playing pouring water games when small.
I found it fun in part because of the games I made up to go with the pouring. It wasn't just water that I was pouring. It was flour, sugar, eggs, milk, and all sorts of other things that go into baking. I was measuring it most carefully, but the fun part was pouring, so I mostly did that.
Sometimes I was watching to see what happened, toying with the physical limits of the water (water and air and cups and bottles) with the same experimental glee that I would later use in testing to see if I could reproduce some weird behavior in the wild in LiveJournal. I didn't know how these things would behave if I experimented with them. So, I experimented with them for the sheer joy of finding out what would happen. Scientific inquiry comes naturally, and my parents never squelched it in me. When you don't know the parameters, the world is a giant playground.
Sometimes it was just for the fun of playing with water. It sparkles when you pour it. Its weight is aesthetically pleasing. It feels good against the skin. It makes fascinating noises. You can make shapes with the stream of water when you pour it -- make it wide and flat, slender, drippy, have it arc more or less. You can lose yourself for a while, if you're not careful.
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I found it fun in part because of the games I made up to go with the pouring. It wasn't just water that I was pouring. It was flour, sugar, eggs, milk, and all sorts of other things that go into baking. I was measuring it most carefully, but the fun part was pouring, so I mostly did that.
Sometimes I was watching to see what happened, toying with the physical limits of the water (water and air and cups and bottles) with the same experimental glee that I would later use in testing to see if I could reproduce some weird behavior in the wild in LiveJournal. I didn't know how these things would behave if I experimented with them. So, I experimented with them for the sheer joy of finding out what would happen. Scientific inquiry comes naturally, and my parents never squelched it in me. When you don't know the parameters, the world is a giant playground.
Sometimes it was just for the fun of playing with water. It sparkles when you pour it. Its weight is aesthetically pleasing. It feels good against the skin. It makes fascinating noises. You can make shapes with the stream of water when you pour it -- make it wide and flat, slender, drippy, have it arc more or less. You can lose yourself for a while, if you're not careful.