Arts and Crafts and Meat on Trees!

So. We mostly know that I work with clinically silly children. By far the most silly is NR. He's particularly good at pulling concepts directly from the ether and spewing them out of his mouth. This one will stop you in the hallway and ask you if he can ask you a question. Here is a sample of some of his most nonsensical queries:

- Nicole, do you like big things or little things?
- Nicole, can you dance like a mad scientist? How about like a platypus?
- Nicole, could you give me a blowtorch and some peanut butter? I would like to knit you some new glasses.
- Wait! Did you just call me Lola?
- Can I poke you?

So we are working on cut-paper springtime collages in OT this week. Generally, most children wanted some type of fruit on their tree, so, when I asked NR what kind of fruit he wanted for the tree he had just made, he asked for a list of examples:

Me: apples, oranges, lemons, pears, peaches. . .
NR: grapes?
Me: Well grapes grow on a vine...
NR: Blueberries?
Me: Bush
NR: What do tomatoes grow on?
Me: Vine
NR: How about corn?
Me: Stalk
NR: BEEF JERKY!!!
Me: (brief explanation about beef jerky's non-tree origins)

-Thoughtful pause

Me: So what kind of tree are we gonna make here?
NR: Beef jerky.
Me: For realsies?
NR: (nods)

I had to walk away to keep from laughing and let him snip and color away. Here are the results. I think it looks more like bacon, but what do I know?