Anna has become quite the artist. She loves to color and finger paint. She uses every color she can get her hands on and has a very good attention span for it. Plain palates seem to be her favorite medium. I gave her a coloring book the other week and she didn't like it as much as the blank paper she had been using. Stifles the creativity, I guess! She also seems to really like different textures. She loves to color on her little table as it provides a contrast to the smooth paper. And when she's coloring on the easel, she loves to continue off the page to the white board underneath and the wood border on the side.
The other day I gave her some shaving cream to finger paint with, and she was enjoying that so much we added some actual finger paint into the mix. Unfortunately it all smeared together so nothing very pretty came of it, but she had a blast. It's a great range of motion activity for her arms and hands too!
For something a little different, I dyed some macaroni and helped her glue some down on paper, but she wasn't as interested in this activity. She did, however, enjoy the playdoh I made, but she kept pinching off tiny pieces and making a bit more of a mess than I wanted to clean on a regular basis so for now, we'll stick with the crayons and finger paint.
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