This is what Maia and I do when we are sitting at the bakery/coffee shop on the weekend waiting for our breakfast—we draw back and forth in the notebook I always carry in my bag. Harry is probably reading the New York Times, Daphne is playing in the toy corner, and I'm half writing my notes and to-do lists and half drawing with Maia.
One of us starts the drawing and then we just take turns adding elements back and forth. Or, as in the drawing above, I start it (with the head circle) and Maia starts drawing and just doesn't stop.
You know how we all grumble that the stores start selling Christmas decorations earlier and earlier each year? Well, it's kinda like that in my house. It's not even Halloween yet and we've been making gingerbread houses, paper chains, and Christmas tree ornaments.
We seem to find a lot of excuses to make cake around here. Especially cake involving color and generous amounts of sprinkles.
Daphne, who turned three last month, finally moved from our bed to her own big girl bed (this transition was a tad overdue). In talking up the move, I told her we would have to celebrate once we set up her new bed, and she, of course, took that to mean there would be cake.
This
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If you've
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I give my daughters separate paints. Not always. But when I can, I do.
Daphne and Maia are at such different stages on the paint mixing spectrum, that if I don't it just leads to frustration for both of them.
Maia, at seven, is meticulous with her paints. If her paints start out looking like the photo above, they will end looking like the photo above.* She washes her brush between paint colors or uses a different brush.
Daphne has a new wood play kitchen that she cooks at every day, multiple times a day. She loves her little kitchen and feels sorry for me that I don't have one just like hers, but my size. She asks if we should get one for me, too. Don't I want one?
And when I tell her that I can cook just fine in the kitchen I have, she looks at me with gentle pity in her eyes. She knows she has the better deal.
Let's Talk Chalk is a mother-daughter Etsy shop selling vinyl chalkboard labels in all sorts of shapes, from the traditional to the playful. They are one of my lovely blog sponsors and recently sent me an assortment of their labels to try out and review. Thank goodness, too, because I needed some labelling action in the art studio.
I love art
—kids' art, any art. You know that. I write about a lot of the art-making that happens in our family and I hope to encourage and inspire others to make art a bigger part of their children's lives.
Want to make a Halloween bunting to decorate your house or classroom? Here's one that's quick and cheap to make, plus it uses materials you probably already have on hand: construction paper, wax paper, and tape.
