Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Budding Artists

We've got budding artists here! Ben, especially, loves to color. And he's pretty good. He doesn't stay in the lines, but he can color the shirt and the pants a different color.

For Christmas they got some special markers that only work on special paper. I was saving them for a rainy or whiny day. The latter occurred about two weeks ago. They were arguing and whining, so I broke out the markers and special coloring books.

Ben was not thrilled. The markers mark a wet colored streak and then in a few seconds the color appears. Well Ben wasn't willing to wait for all that. He immediately wanted his crayons. I had bought some new crayons recently, and they got new coloring books for Christmas, so I put out both. Seth was content to color with the markers. After a while he started coloring on the back of the book. It's a hard piece of brown-colored cardboard. The color doesn't appear, just a wet streak. That didn't bother him one bit.

Seth colored for a while and then he got down to play. Ben colored for almost 30 minutes. He loved it!



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