Artist Hands

My daughter is a creator.  She loves to sit at the table and create - pictures, sculptures, mosaics, etc.  If it involves paint, glue, scissors, markers, crayons, stickers, and paper she is all about it.  Her sitting at the "school table" creating is a normal occurrence at our house. 

 I am constantly telling her that she gets this from her Uncle James, her Aunt Susu, and her Uncle Vic - they are all very creative. 

There are only 2 down sides to her always creating:
1)  We have a million art projects in our house and she wants to keep them all. 
         * My solution has been to make a "keep box" where all art that she wants to keep has to be put or it goes in the trash.  About once a month, we go through the "keep box" and she gets to pick 3 or 4 that she really likes and I get to pick 1 or 2 that I like.  Don't want to end up on some hoarder's show.

2) She doesn't like to do things that have set directions to follow. 
         * My solution to this has been to let her "free create" as much as possible, but letting her know when we're about to do something that requires her to follow directions.  It works sometimes.


When I go to wash her hands before meals or whenever she, no doubt, has some kind of marker, glue, paint, or a combination on them.  I tell her she has artists hands and that makes her smile.  I'm glad she enjoys it, I'm glad it makes her smile.  Her love for art and her smile when she is praised on one of her creations totally outweighs the down sides.




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