The imagination of a 2 year old

Yesterday I decided to make homemade dinner rolls. Peyton loves to help me cook and make things. He helped me knead the dough and we waited for it to rise and then he helped me punch it down. I started to make the dough into balls and I gave him one to do all by himself. It wasn't a very good one and he wasn't done rolling it by the time I was done, so I let him play with it for a while. It kept him busy for hours. It was awesome. And it was really interesting to see the many ways he came up with to play with this small ball of dough. The picture shows just a few things that he used to stamp, roll and poke with. It is so fascinating to watch him use his imagination. I don't know why I never thought of letting him play with play dough before. I found a recipe for play dough that my mom used to use when we were kids that I will definitely be using.
These are some of the many things: a dinosaur (for foot prints), a heart cookie cutter, a pirate toy (again for footprints), a scewer, fork, those things you put into tuna cans to drain them, rolling pin (or what he calls it, a 'rock and roll'), and a lego piece.