A while back, Baylor asked me if he could paint something. I asked him whether he wanted to paint with watercolors or finger paint, and he resoundingly told me, "Finger paint!" So here we are, two-and-a-half and our first foray into finger paint.
He was more than ready to dip his fingers into the paint and spread it on the paper ...
He was more than ready to dip his fingers into the paint and spread it on the paper ...
However, he was not ready for how sticky and messy his hands would get.
He tried wiping them off on his chest. (Thanks, buddy!)
But then he just sat there and stared at them.
His painting was beautiful, if only to his mother, and of course will be saved for posterity. When he becomes a famous artist/baker (he told me the other day he wants to be a baker when he grows up - how cute is that?!) I will have his first painting as a souvenier.
Since the painting session, he has shown an interest in colors and now can pretty much draw the color wheel on his own (using a bowl for the circle and a ruler for the straight lines). I have a feeling he'll be much more into his next finger painting session than he was his first.
Though it's a lot of clean-up - I found paint splattered on the floor for a while after this first session - he really seems to enjoy painting. We'll have to start doing this more often.
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