Last year my mom’s group went to the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The outing was called “StrollArt at the Modern.” It was a great time with my friends appreciating modern art.
For Jessie’s second Christmas her daddy and I gave her a floor pad and crayons that promote proper hand position. I thought she’d be eager to color. She didn’t show much interest.
We bought a number of Aquadoodle books and water pens for a previous foster placement. The former foster daughter loved watching the colors come up with water, dry, and then start again. I loved how there was no mess with them. I tried to get Jessie to find the joy in Aquadoodle, but she wanted only to chew the pens.
I bought a Disney Princess Learn to Write Book & Magnetic Drawing Pad so Jessie would have something to entertain herself on a flight. She wasn’t into it.
Now Jessie has tapped into her inner artist. She wants to color with the triangle Crayolas, the tiny P’kolino crayons, or the crayons we got as a party favor. I want to encourage her to explore her world by coloring in her books. I love to color and I love that she enjoys coloring too.
Jessie’s choice of places to color lately, however, has been the walls. Even though we have always stressed that she color only on paper, the walls are still filled with scribbles. She even colored on her new car and the couch.
I figure that we should just wait for her to grow out of it before we paint. Daddy found an easy and painless method to get the crayon off the wall: the hair dryer. He heated the marks with the hair dryer and then used a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.
Is your toddler an artist? Have you had to clean the walls?