All kinds, guys!
I used my construction toys to make a robot family and conceived their various evolutions from one form to another (long before Pokémon existed). I made a weird board game out of paper that caused a babysitter to call me "The next Steven Spielberg" (which irritated my mom because she didn't want me to be "the next" anything). I (with the help of my sisters) made a juice concoction from all the drinkable substances in the house and named it Wee Punch. (I do not remember why, but we had a list of the ingredients and sometimes begged Mom to let us buy them even though the punch itself was kind of gross tasting.) I made a game with my friend about a kidnapper who made us cook for him, whom we escaped by feeding him a bomb. I made macrame, finger-knitting ropes, and friendship bracelets. I made illustrated stories about girls who did things. I made dollhouse furniture and holiday cards with poems in them. I made tacky earrings from beads. I made taped recordings of music I made up or attempted harmonies to existing songs. I made time capsules. I made hats out of paper.
Mostly, though, it was probably drawings.
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| Age 5, self portrait |
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| Age 5, representation of my dad reading the paper on the toilet |
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| Probably first grade or something, self portrait |
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| Age 7 or 8, random braid girl |
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| Age 7 or 8, random ballerina |
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| Age 8 or 9, Popples fan art |
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| Age 8 or 9, depiction of my youngest sister's face whenever she got her way |
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| Age 10, a mermaid |
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| Middle school, attempted realism |
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| Middle school sometime, random market square |
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| An adorable cover for what became my very first completed novel |
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