On Friday, I asked Ben if he
wanted to paint and he did. By the time
I cleaned off the kitchen table and set up the canvas, paint and paint brushes,
he wanted to play. So we went downstairs
to his playroom instead. Ben headed back
upstairs for a snack while I finished folding the last few pairs of socks. By the time I got to the kitchen, maybe 30
seconds later, Ben, with a paint brush in his hand declared, “I am all done
Mommy!”
Lessons learned...
Don’t
Push
Had
I insisted we paint before going downstairs to play Ben would have most likely
lost interest in painting...forever.
Work
Within Their Attention Span
Some
days Ben will paint for five minutes and sometimes for 15 seconds. When he’s done, he’s done.
Don’t
Use a New Brush on Canvas for the First Time
I
didn’t love the results of the new brush we used this time around. We should have tried it out for the first
time on a piece of paper. Luckily, this
is a layered painting and hopefully the parts I don’t love will be painted
over.
