I talked before about how Elora and Josh can sometimes draw so well, their works are comparable to famous artists;-)! Well, they are still as creative as ever (of course) but have been branching out from mere drawing lately.
Elora has finally taken an interest in her coloring books. Just like myself as a child, she seemed to find coloring boring and tedious up until now. But one day I suggested she try coloring things with more than one color. Then I taught her how to do stripes on a tie, and a new style was born! Check out these recent pages:
She uses blue a lot because she knows its my favorite color, and she wants me to like her pictures.
Elora has also started using the printed word a lot more.She writes her name on everything; no, she can't write other words by herself yet, but she's constantly asking me how to spell things, or how to print certain letters, for things like this:
If you can't tell, it says "The fourth of July" in that foot. I wrote the "rth" in it, and down at the bottom are my example letters for her to look at. I don't know why she wanted it to say that...but hey, at least she's writing!
Then she made this last week:
It says, "I am going to write this." And yeah, I'm the dork that told her to use the wrong spelling of the word "wright". Again, those are my letter examples at the bottom.
Then one day she decided she wanted to write a story! She couldn't find her lined paper, so she drew her own lines, then started her story! It took her about an hour to get this much done:
and then she got bored and didn't finish it. But I wrote the rest of what she was
going to write, at the bottom so we wouldn't forget. Her story reads, "The Jeff gets a present to the boy. The boy (give a present to the wolf)."
Don't ask me what a "Jeff" is, but she was insistent that this is what she wanted to write.
Of course, we still see a few drawings and paintings here and there:
The figure in the left corner is Elora, who is tied down so the wind doesn't blow her away, and she has a headband and a hair tie in her hair that is blowing in the wind.
We have a painted wall with a ladder...which I think is brilliant for the use of multiple colors, but then, I am the mom.
A cool bird with eyelashes in this painting:
And of course, the traditional drawing subject of little girls everywhere: flowers under a yellow sun.
Now lets not forget Josh! He doesn't get into the drawing and painting as much as Elora does, but he still participates from time to time. He'll still cover papers in tiny little swirls and circles, claiming that he's writing his name. And the other day he produced this awesome "mixed media" piece:
Lovely, aren't they?
