What with all the house and land hunting, premature planning of gardens and scrambling to find a new preschool – after all the hassle we went through finding one here in Brookline! – I may be blogging less, but that doesn’t mean we’re playing less around here! And even though I haven’t posted her drawings …
Category Archives: drawings (childrens’)
The People, Signing Her Own Name, Growth Spurt
Amie drew “The People” today. 4 of them. 1 big person and 3 tiny ones: She also signed her name on the back: We’ve been working on letters, and this is her first full written word (besides “8oo”, i.e., “Boo”). The A she has down pat. The M still tends to flatten out and go …
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We Love Rosemary Wells
We are big fans over here of Rosemary Wells. We adore the Mother Goose book she did with Iona Opie, but our absolute favorites are the Voyage to the Bunny Planet books. There are three of them, but we only own The Island Light (about Felix) and Moss Pillows (about Robert). I stumbled upon them …
The End of the Tadpoles?
Amie has been making strides with her drawing. She has been grouping little tadpole figures together on one page – my suggestion, that we use the “white” on the paper a bit more. She has also been mixing the mouth inside with the mouth outside the face figures. But overall, the figures had become formulaic, …
Big Girls
The pressure’s on when there’s a Big Girl (6-year-old L) watching you! And despite Baba’s efforts, the smiles as you can see still go underneath. And she still hasn’t made up her mind whether she’s a leftie (like Mama) or a rightie (like her Baba). The “look L is eating all her vegetables!” didn’t work, …
Tadpoles Also Have Hands and Feet
Amie took special care with this one: it’s for a friend who is ill. We talked in advance about the plan to put two figures on the page, and how it would be best to turn the page horizontally (landscape) so they would fit. She began with the head of the left figure, taking care …
Tadpoles Smile Too!
Amie has been drawing her tadpoles consistently, but for one major change. A week ago she started drawing their mouths underneath, that is, outside the head. Consistently. I asked her one day, when she was about to put down the mouth: “Amie, look, where is Mama’s mouth? Is it inside my face or outside?” I …
On my time
DH is the one who drops Amie off at daycare in the mornings on his way to work. Every morning I rush him/them. Amie by now knows the mantra: “I need to go to office, Baba needs to go to office, Mama also needs to go to office, in the study!” (This concept, by the …
It’s Boo!
Amie was never interested in TV, but on the flights to and from Singapore she got hooked on the movie Monsters, Inc. She now asks to see it every day, but that’s not what this post is about. It’s about how much she loves those characters, talks about them all the time, pretends to play with …
The Drawing Book for and with Amie
Watching this video of Sir Ken Robinson’s talk on education and creativity at TED – hilarious, insightful, engaging and (ringing) so true – and reacquainting myself with Danny Gregory’s website and books on drawing, I realized there was a gap in my approach to art and creativity with Amie. When she draws or paints and asks …