Jordan had her first real painting experience yesterday and it was a lot of fun. We're redoing her bedroom for her "big girl bed", which we should pick up this weekend. The theme is birdies and owls, very precious. So I bought these little cheapy unfinished bird houses for us to paint and hang in a corner, with the plan of letting Jordan paint one.
We set up outside yesterday (NO WAY am I letting her paint indoors) with the paints and brushes and the only rule was she couldn't use the same brush in more than one paint color. And I stripped her down and made her wear pull-ups so no clothes would get ruined. She did amazingly well, and only broke the paint brush rule once. No biggie. And she even let me put her hair in a pony tail to keep it out of harm's way.
We painted for about an hour. She loved it. She even posed for the camera. She kept saying birdies were going to come live inside her house. I was painting one of the other bird houses along side her, and she would say things like "That's pretty Mama", and "You're doing a good job". She came up with that all on her own; I hadn't even had a chance yet to tell her that hers was pretty, etc. That was interesting to me because I wasn't aware that she really had a concept of things, especially inanimate things, being "pretty" (or not).
Of course when it was time to put the paint away, she howled and cried and threw a fit. But I'm so glad she enjoyed it, because she doesn't usually seem very interested in creative activities like coloring. I'm looking forward to all of Jordan's future art projects, and we'll always cherish her birdie house.
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What an awesome creative idea! Way to go, Kim! Can't wait to see pics of the finished room.
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