With the completion of the new Art Room (pictures to follow soon!), we have all embraced our creative side. Which is not really something the kids needed to do. Embracing our tidying-up side or our learning-to-write-your-name side would have been a good move. As it turns out, our kids are long on creativity and short on tidying up.
Or homework.
But instead of a Math room (a vague suggestion M had), we have an Art Room! And, better yet, it came at just the right time…the Week of the Virus. When the kids were sick last week, and they’d had enough of the iPad and I had had enough of Cailou (short time period there), we had art activities to do. Hundreds and hundreds of crafts!
In addition to other improvements, the easel came out of Playroom Storage, and I donated all my former Scrapbooking paper and supplies to the cause of the kids’ creativity.
The paper is actually important, since it seems that when Catie used the easel five years ago, we didn’t give her paper (????). I would love to say that we’ve learned some things in those five years, but that would not explain why one-year-old Nate is painting without a smock.
But he is and he did and his painting joined the museum of fine art now on the Art Room walls. Dozens and dozens of paintings and collages and stenciled signs now decorate this room.
Which, I might add, is a lot prettier than math.
