show-off

We had an Open House meeting at Ada's school earlier this week. The meeting was pretty standard. This is what we are working on, this is what kind of food you can bring in, here is some artwork, etc... Then, at the end, they brought out hand prints in dough that the kids had made earlier in the day. They wanted the kids to paint the hand prints with their parents help. So they passed out little dixie cups of non-toxic, non-staining paint and paint brushes and let the kids go. It was obvious from the very start that this is their normal arts and crafts process. All of the kids knew to stick the brush in the cup. However, they weren't so clear on what to do then. One little girl started painting one of the boys, one of the other little girls started to eat the paint (well most of them did this), and then there was Ada. She took her paint brush with paint on it and started painting the hand print. Well it was more like stabbing the hand print with her paint brush but to all of the other mothers who were watching their little ones eat paint - it was the work of Picaso. Their oohs and ahhs just egged Ada on. She kept stabbing away, until she had her entire hand print (and half the table) covered in bright pink paint. As most of the kids got bored they put their cups of paint on the table. Ada grabbed one of the cups with green paint and added a couple quick stabs of green for a little Jackson Pollack type flair.