Collaborative Work – Parent and Preschooler
Here’s Lou and I drawing together. I drew the outlines and she would draw the insides. She drew tomatoes on the ketchup, pizza toppings on the pizza slice, and colored in the soup can. We were looking at some wooden play foods. Drawing from reference is important to me. I used to think people drew everything out of their heads. But they all use reference.
That’s a bag of dates. I drew the glorious hand. She held her hand out for part of the drawing. The beginnings of life drawing… We’ve also done the classic “one person draws a squiggle, the other person turns it into something.”
Lou looooved this. She would do a simple scribble and I would turn it into something. I would exagerate turning the book to look for ideas, looking intently at the scribble to find what it could become. We also did something a bit more fancy this week:
She drew with vanishing ink, picked the colors and I stitched this for our little friends birthday. Good times. December 6th, 2009 | 7 comments |
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I love the stitching- that would make a great grandparent gift, too!
That is so cute. I love when kids start doing their first “people” drawings…the big heads, the long legs and arms coming out of the face. It’s adorable and makes a perfect little keepsake.
I agree, I love the arms out of the head thing. And good point about a keepsake, we’ll make one for us now too!
I love that you foster her creativity through free drawing in something other than the typical coloring book. Kids rarely get that these days!
And the way you preserved her little scribbles with stitching is just darling! I saved my sons first symbol drawing (a face), and I think I might use it for this.
I hope you don’t mind that I shared a link to this post with my readers at B.Inspired Mama!
Thank you! And your blog is awesome! I’m going to work my way through your links too at naptime :)
Such great gifts for Loved-Ones… I’m hoping you’ll share on Friday’s Nature Table. Pop on over to my blog to post a link.
Blessings and magic.
Donni
What great ideas at your blog. I must go find some sea glass now….