by Robin Kay
On Tuesdays we paint — which, to my surprise, has become one of my favourite activities. Because even though I've been an early years teacher for six years, paint has not been my favourite art medium to pair with toddlers - and entirely because of the mess, which I think we as parents often let get in the way of letting our children fully experience things.
...paint has not been my favourite art medium to pair with toddlers - and entirely because of the mess, which I think we as parents often let get in the way of letting our children fully experience things.It took having my own child to let the joy of painting outweigh the inevitable mess to follow (an outlook that I could stand to apply to so much more in life). Now I look forward to Tuesdays (and the occasional day in-between), seeing her focus as she moves the brush across the paper purposefully, or fully immersed in simply dipping her brush from paint to water. So worth the mess.
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