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He had an easel and paints by the time he was two, received the Play-Doh Creativity Center for his third birthday and has a desk full of crayons, -Kid Cool's Mom, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
It may be snowing in Connecticut today, but it's only October and Kid Cool and I are not about to stop playing in the leaves. Instead of the usual weekly homework packet, Kid Cool came home last Friday with pages to fill for 'My Leaf Book.' He had to spend this week finding leaves of different colors, sizes and shapes. There was also a place for a bumpy leaf, a smooth leaf and a fuzzy leaf. And of course a page for writing some sentences about the leaves he collected. There was also a cover to this leaf book, and according to his first grade teacher's instructions, it needed to be decorated. Fortunately, she gave her students two decorating options: either tape on more leaves to decorate the cover or create a pretty Fall picture with crayons or markers. Guess which option Kid Cool chose? The quick and easy tape job, of course.
markers and coloring books, but it takes a clever twist to get this six year old excited about creating art. Thank goodness we've discovered some toys that make art fun for him. Plain ol' Play-Doh or clay ends up rolled into tiny balls ('ammunition') for robot battles. But if I pull out the 
