The story goes something like this:
Stefie decides we should use the brightly colored markers (washable with water), so Mommy says ok. After all, this is a supervised activity. Stefie takes the purple marker and draws on the easel then decides she should use her hands to rub the image (the artist in her), after she does so and Mommy sees the purple ink on her hands, we quickly run to the sink to wash it off. It does not come off so easily and becomes permanent dye on Stefie's little hands. (Did I forget to mention Stefie had a bath before lunch?) Mommy decides we should change art projects and puts the markers away for now (maybe this is a bit too soon, Mommy not wanting to see purple marker on the cabinets, floors or Charlie).
We move on to the chalk board. (sounds easy enough) Everything is going fine and Stefie is enjoying this very much sitting on Mommy's lap as we use different colors of chalk. Stefie keeps dropping chalk on the wood floor so it breaks. Chalk gets away from her and she does not want Mommy to get up and get it, and she does not want to get it herself. Before I could do anything along comes Charlie. Charlie decides to taste the chalk as Mommy screams in horror, and gets up quickly. Stefie not to happy with this screams because she thinks Mommy should be her chair and the person to hold the chalk. Mommy picks up all of the chalk and then all is going well. This is a wonderful activity until Mommy gets distracted for a moment and Stefie decides to taste chalk and paint her face, then she tries to color Charlie in chalk but Mommy stops her. Stefie decides Mommy's face is the best easel of all, and colors Mommy with blue chalk before she could take the chalk away! The only smart one was Tigger who ran away before anything happened. In the end, we moved on to using the magnets on the board. The safest activity for now.
Here are photos from our interesting art project.
I need inspiration
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Prior to our art project.
