Adventures in Art

Sometime in February it occurred to me that I should give Ephram some crayons, some paper, and stand back to see what he would do.  It was instant love.

Months of watching Charlie put crayon to paper had taught Ephram what to do.  He was a natural.  He was also a natural at putting the crayons in his mouth.  Luckily they taste bad enough that he would spit them right back out.

The same month I also decided to try making some play dough with Charlie.  I thought it would be a good experiment for us, and he definitely agreed.  I think his favorite part was when I gave him the food coloring and let him experiment with how to make a good color.  We ended up with one batch of green and one batch of orange.

Turns out that Charlie is pretty creative with play dough.  Yes, he's played with it before, but he seemed to love the homemade version more.

Incidentally Ephram loved it too.  He loved poking his fingers in it, smushing it,

throwing little pieces of it, grabbing it and rubbing it on his hair, and...

yep, eating it.  You would have thought that its extreme saltiness would have been a deterrent.  But it wasn't.

Still, we enjoyed this play dough for a full month... and then made some more for March!