new markers...
While out running our errands today, I bought the boys each a new set of WASHABLE markers. Logan got a 20 pack of Crayola Super Tips and Caleb got 16 pack of Crayola Pip Squeaks. I'm hoping to dissuade them from wanting to use my permanent markers in their artistic endeavors. Ha! Fat chance, I know. I'm trying to think positive here.
Tonight we cracked open all the marker packages and the boys set to town on their own bumble bees. Caleb chose a more traditional pallette of black, grey and orange for his bee. He also took every opportunity to color his body, clothing and table top with black, grey and orange (see a close up at flickr). After he deemed his masterpiece finished, he held it up with pride and me without my camera at the ready! Luckily he was feeling photogenic this evening and not only held it up to show off once, but five or six times. Chanting, "again, again," everytime the camera flash snapped.
Logan felt his bumble bee would be happier if it was more colorful than just black and yellow (see a close up at flickr). He worked so hard at coloring inside the lines. He had a few little straggled lines around the body and wings and didn't seem bothered at all by them. Once he started working on the right cheek he had on little area spring up and out of the lines. He just flipped...he wanted to wad it up, cut into a million pieces with his scissors, throw it away. He was so upset. I told him we could fix it to make it look like it was supposed to be that way all along. He was intrigued. We sat back down and I showed him he could turn the little mistake into a line and then he could just put a few more lines down to balance it and noone would be the wiser. You would have thought I pulled a quarter out of his ear. So cute.
Tonight we cracked open all the marker packages and the boys set to town on their own bumble bees. Caleb chose a more traditional pallette of black, grey and orange for his bee. He also took every opportunity to color his body, clothing and table top with black, grey and orange (see a close up at flickr). After he deemed his masterpiece finished, he held it up with pride and me without my camera at the ready! Luckily he was feeling photogenic this evening and not only held it up to show off once, but five or six times. Chanting, "again, again," everytime the camera flash snapped.
Logan felt his bumble bee would be happier if it was more colorful than just black and yellow (see a close up at flickr). He worked so hard at coloring inside the lines. He had a few little straggled lines around the body and wings and didn't seem bothered at all by them. Once he started working on the right cheek he had on little area spring up and out of the lines. He just flipped...he wanted to wad it up, cut into a million pieces with his scissors, throw it away. He was so upset. I told him we could fix it to make it look like it was supposed to be that way all along. He was intrigued. We sat back down and I showed him he could turn the little mistake into a line and then he could just put a few more lines down to balance it and noone would be the wiser. You would have thought I pulled a quarter out of his ear. So cute.
posted by Amy at 8:24 PM
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