Babin loves playing with her crayons or 'colours' and spends lots of her day putting them in and out of her handbag, asking to draw with them and showing them to 'baby' or 'bear', and telling Nana about them on the phone.
So, I thought we'd try some finger painting. She loved it, we looked at the feel of them and she decided they were 'silkeee', and she became totally immersed in smoothing the paint around the paper, naming the colours, swirling the colours together and generally painting.
Then, I turned my face away for 30 seconds, just thirty seconds, suddenly I hear a spitting sound and her saying 'blue, blue' spit spit 'blue, blue'. Her whole mouth, teeth, tounge, lips, cheeks were blue, covered in finger paint.
We rushed to the sink and I helped her clean her face, and tried to get her to clean her mouth out, but she just kept making funny spitting noises and saying blue! 10 minutes later she was blue free and was clear that she didn't want to do anymore painting.
So we put the painting to dry and went off to read some stories and when 'daeee' came home she proudly showed him her painting, pointing out the blue!
I chalked it up to experience and made a mental note to not turn away next time we finger paint. Interestingly this morning she has run around the house pointing out everything blue!! All other colours are still getting mixed up, but not blue!
Oh no, now she's tasted it, she's learnt it, so next week we might try red though this time with beetroot not paint I think!!!
Friday 5 February 2010
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