Breaking In Our "New" Colored Pencils

One thing I love about working with children is that they inspire so much creativity! It was true for me as a Waldorf teacher, and it is definitely true of me as a homeschooling mom...when I allow it! And today was that day!




I bought myself a set of nice colored pencils back in May as kind of a Mother's Day gift to myself...ok, it's January, and I haven't used them yet! I bought her a pad of paper for us to draw together back in August as part of our homeschool supplies...hadn't used that yet. I gave her a set of colored pencils over the holidays...because she has not alternate to-do list or other agenda, those puppies have been used! But today, we finally drew together, like I have been aching to do since I bought those pencils in May.



She wanted to draw a beautiful girl in a pink and black dress and wanted help. So I set us up on the kitchen table and threw out the to-do list, because this felt like it needed to be a priority. And then I just started drawing. I told her a little bit about what I was doing, and she drew right alongside me. Once we had finished drawing our beautiful girls, I asked where we wanted her to be. She said at a wedding. So we added in a red carpet for her to walk down and put flowers in her hand. Then we decided it should be outside and added grass and sky. Viola! We were done. She was ready to move on to the next drawing, but dinner time had arrived. I took the time to date and title the back of each of our drawings. Then we took the time to lovingly put away our drawing materials so they would be ready for us again. I really want to keep doing this with her. It felt so good to sit down and be creative together!


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