Deprived Children or Creative Parenting?

Every summer we go to wal-mart and buy a new pool for the kids to play in. We have to do this every year because the kids drag the pool out and leave it laying around and ruin it. So this year I said I will not buy a new one. We just won't have a pool you will have to run through the sprinklers and jump on the tramp with water. They whined but have given up. Well today they were thoroughly bored. We were supposed to go to the park but they were horrible to each other and to me so the park trip got cancelled. They finally decided they were bored enough to start to play together and went out back. They came in and I asked them why I could hear the water running. They said they were filling up their swimming pools? SO I new this would be good I grabbed the camera and me and preslie headed out back I about died when i seen their pools. I couldn't decide if I had deprived them of fun or If I caused them to use their imaginations?

Lainee, Tanner, and Stetson in their swimming pools.

I let preslie jump while I watched them "swim"

She also played like she was driving the beat up, broken down ,dead battery, hot wheel.

Then she decided she would join the other fishes in their pools.

They all played for awhile and then the "pools" were left on the back lawn for me to put up before their dad came home and seen them. Like I said that is the reason they don't have a pool to begin with.

But at least they had fun. Probaly more fun than with a pool because they laughed and laughed at themselves for coming up with such a great idea!!