Independent Kids' Art

I received this very fun art-supply carousel for my birthday. It was meant for my sewing stuff -scissors, rulers, fabric markers, drafting pencils etc, but the girls hijacked it and filled it with their own stuff. Emily regularly replenishes the supply of paper in the middle

and every day, whenever there is a lull in the day's manic activity, the girls are sitting at the table, drawing and coloring.

Some of Emily's recent drawings:

A boy and a girl picking apples

Jenna dressed as Maisy

A girl having lunch in her room, brought to her by her sister

Cinderella, her stepmother, her two stepsisters and Jaq (the sidekick mouse)

Kate's Prettyrellas

which Kate happily matched up with her actual Prettyrella figurines.

Jenna's current inspiration is rainbows:

"This is me standing on a rainbow."

"This is us covered in chocolate standing on a rainbow."

Kate loves drawing herself. I drew one blue Kate as an example, and then we used foam stickies for bodies/dresses and I drew heads. Some of the limbs I drew, but most of them she did. She drew all the shoes.




The last Kate in yellow was drawn entirely by her (except the head). She insisted that this Kate had a skirt AND shirt. And shoes, of course.

I think I'll let the carousel sit on our kitchen table a while more. It's kept the kids busy while I cook and clean, and it has produced far prettier works of art than I ever have with my sewing stuff.