Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The 1st Mishap at the Art Shelf
Last night I looked over at O while I was cooking and she was drawing at her art shelf. She was coloring all over the shelf with a marker. I screamed, and the poor child looked terrified. I explained to her that we only color on paper, not shelves. She cleaned it up (luckily, she was using washable markers!) and told me she was sorry. I told her I was sorry for scaring her when I screamed. She looked at me very seriously and said "You screamed too woud (loud), mama! You need use your inside voice. Next time scream like this "ahhh" (her scream was very soft and sweet!) She really doesn't like loud noises, and hopefully she won't color on the shelves again :) She said she colored on the shelf because her paper was full. I reminded her that she can flip to a blank sheet of paper. Hopefully, she'll remember next time!
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Aww, her paper was full. That is so sweet:)
ReplyDeleteThe book that was really helpful for me with my two year old is Young At Art by Susan Striker. It not only gives endless ideas for ways to create art, but it goes into the mind of the young child and how it can be strengthened by art. Since I started using Striker's techniques my daughter has just taken off with her creative side. It's really fun to watch.
ReplyDeleteI think every child I've ever known has drawn off their paper at least once - my sister has two boys who love to "explore" their creative side. I don't think there is a singe room or surface that has escaped their combined efforts. Recently, she tried to paint over it, and they helped with that too!
ReplyDeleteGood job O for cleaning up the markers!
Julie- I have that book! I'm planning on using it a lot more in the next few months :)
ReplyDeleteToo cute!
ReplyDeleteWithin the last couple of weeks almost every wall in our house is now full of marker, pen, and crayon marks. I keep them put up except when I'm watching her but a few weeks ago her Daddy let her have them. Bless the poor man but he didn't notice that she had stockpiled and hid some of the markers and crayons. Later, she decided to do a little drawing. Since then, my efforts at "paper only" has not really worked. Once she experienced the sweetness of the huge blank canvas of a wall--she tries to get in a little grafitti when possible. Now, that has moved over to toys, clothing, and ect. Magic eraser is my best friend. I love that about the indoor voice.
ReplyDeleteSo cute, telling you to use your inside voice. I always feel terrible when I am loud with my son, he really hates loud noises, too.
ReplyDeleteHa! When I taught kindergarten I remember discovering a HUGE drawing on the back of a bookshelf, so detailed it had probably taken more than a day to complete. I asked the guilty party to fess up; no one did, of course. Then I looked closer...and there was the whole name of the artist proudly printed underneath the drawing! First and last names, even!
ReplyDeleteI think kids really honestly don't know that something is wrong when they're willing to sing their whole name to it! : )
This post kind of makes me feel a little better. When I saw your art shelf, my first thought was that there was no way I could do that (my dd is about 6 months younger than yours, I think) because we would have "art" all over our house! In fact, I've recently been letting her draw while I sew with 1 crayon at a time, and after she went to bed one night I discovered my portable sewing case covered in a wonderful purple scribble. Since it's not a wall or anything, I just left it because I figured in 20 years I'd wish that I had anyway. It doesn't sound like O will be doing that again anyway! I'll have to check out Young At Art again. I got a little bogged down in the theory in that book, and didn't make it all the way through. All I remember is only 1 color at a time, which my dd doesn't seem to appreciate at all.
ReplyDeleteO is so precious. My oldest also gave me a lecture the other night on how she wants me to not yell, but talk in a soft voice when she bothers her younger sister. It was hilarious. Also, both my children both had a brief stint where they drew on walls and themselves! I had to take pictures. But for a few months, I had to put markers up on a higher shelf and just leave crayons on their art easel. Now, thankfully, they understand. Hee, hee.
ReplyDeleteThis post really made me laugh! =) It also made me think about my own tendency to shriek when my little girl is getting into things that cause me to panic (though often, needlessly so).We have an art shelf too, although so far I have kept the washable markers and paints on higher shelves. Thanks for sharing this one!
ReplyDeleteI also had to smile. When my daughter was about two she like to colour, but hated letter-sized paper. She just couldn't draw on that - it was WAY too small. All her moves were so big that she would always go over the edges. I started to get old posters and calendar pages etc. from relatives and friend for her to draw on. Sometimes she would even use the side that was already printed on. She didn't mind at all as long as it was big enough. :-) One day I discovered that she had coloured at one wall in her room. Of course we told her that she can not do this. But since we knew how much she loved to colour on big paper, we used some old paper table clothe (the kind that comes on a roll) and put that on the wall. We told her that she is allowed to colour there but not at any other wall of the apartment. I actually wasn't sure whether she would understand that difference and that I really might regret doing this soon. I feared that it would just be a wall to here and she wouldn't understand the difference to all the other - also white - walls in our apartment. But she did understand it and never tried to colour somewhere else! And she REALLY enjoyed colouring on her "wall" since she could just scribble away without worrying about the size of the paper. By now - she is 3 1/2 now - the wall is down already a few months and she also colours on letter-size paper, which makes things alot easier. ;-)
ReplyDeleteMiss Muffin
sigh.....i keep repeating 'colour only on paper' but alas it still hasn't sunk in to my 10 year old, 8 year old and the 3 year old that learns from them -- but i keep trying
ReplyDeleteand yes the cats and dogs have felt the sweep of the mighty marker
did you know that 'sharpie' markers wash/wear off the human body in only a few days.........i learned this one about 7 years ago
and my 3 year old daughter desperately wants a full beard and mustache like her daddy......oh sigh
and yes i too, yell too loud when i am startled by these discoveries - we are working on that
gracie