Open-ended Art : Yellow & Crayons

It has been quite a crazy week for us and I am way behind in our blogging. Papa just bought a new laptop for Mama so there is a lot of installing, updating and transferring of files to be done. Also, we are recently cleaning up the house so everything is chaotic here.

Somehow I have misread the entry on this week's Open-ended Art and ended up doing the theme (Yellow & Crayons) for next week with Sophie. I pasted strips of black paper onto a piece of drawing paper to make it a little more interesting to scribble on. I thought crayons on paper was not so challenging since all Sophie can do now is doodle and scribble.

As it turned out, Sophie was not quite used to drawing on a surface like that. I think she prefers a blank sheet of paper or no paper at all. It took a while for her to finally start drawing. Even then, she was not too keen.



In fact, Sophie was more comfortable with drawing on the back of the drawing paper. I think it looks better than the actual art piece...

The effect was not quite as exciting as I had hoped. The crayon did not work too well on black construction paper. Nevertheless, it was a good experience for Sophie. And I found that she prefers markers and paint to crayons because their colours are more vibrant. She would probably like oil pastels better.

End Product - Yellow & Crayons

Go to Teaching My Little Bookworm to check out the correct theme for this week's Open-ended Art and see what the other mummies have done with their little ones.