What are some really creative things you've had kids have come up with?

What are some really creative things you've had kids have come up with?
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OK. I’ll start. I don’t know if this is creative or just strange! My almost 4 year old Grandson, who is a clone of his dad, almost in looks but especially in personality, has developed an obsession with our shop vac. The other day he spent 30 minutes experimenting to see what would happen to different things if he held the shop vac on it. Today he came over, and was playing with it again. I was on the deck with his dad and Rick when I heard the vacuuming making this very odd noise. It wasn’t alarming, just strange. I came in to check….he had the wand on it that flattens out and then flairs out to the sides on it. He had that up to his mouth and was humming, or growling, into the hose settling up the strangest vibration and noises! THEN he started moving his fingers on it like he was playing a flute or something!!! THAT BOY IS SO STRANGE!!! And I love him. When it was time to go he did not want to leave his shop vac. He cried a little and threw his arms around it for an extended hug, then kissed it before he left. Yeah. He acts exactly like his father.
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