The first coloring implement children are typically given is crayons. After a while you seem to be overflowing with crayons from restaurant four-packs that came home with any leftovers. Crayons are clean, safe and not messy, making a great thing for young children to use.
My children use colored pencils at school and prefer to use them at home for the most part. They can make a mess on surfaces they’re not intended for, but with the proper expectations set, the mess is usually minimal.
What the children really seem to like using is markers though, permanent markers are more exciting than washable ones. The situation is compounded more when my daughter draws because she can’t see well and gets whatever she’s drawing all over her face in an effort to see what she’s drawing while she draws it.
This week I’m seeing if I can reintroduce crayons as a, “superior coloring tool”. So far, my daughter hasn’t been too keen on crayons.
The Big Boy Update: My son, upon hearing his cousin had three girlfriends coming over said in dismay, “What? We already have two teenage girls, we don’t need three more of them!”
The Tiny Girl Chronicles: I think my daughter can see very, very little most days but some days I’m proven wrong. She wanted a bandaid and I let her see the picture of the little girl on the front. She held it within an inch of her eye and asked me who she was and I replied I couldn’t remember. About six hours later my daughter was playing something on her iPad and suddenly said, “Mom, I know! I know who it is on the bandaid—it’s the girl in this app.” She was completely correct, making a connection across an app and some bandages I’d gotten on eBay—both of which were Strawberry Shortcake. So she can see some things, the question is just what and how?
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