Candice and the Purple Crayon

I read in a book that once your child reaches toddlerhood, you can give her something to doodle with. One day I gave Candice a fat purple crayon and showed her how to make lines and loops on a thick wad of office stationery.

(As of this writing, the fat purple crayon has already traveled beyond paper and made its way around floor tiles and board books. Thank God for washable Crayola.)

Anyway, here’s what the Little Pumpkin came up with:

^ This is her first try. Her hands were quite steady when she drew these lines. I helped her with the circles though. She can draw circles on air but not yet on paper.

^ The second one has lines that crisscross. Never too early to learn the cross-hatching technique.

^ And this one is a collaboration between mom and daughter. We were trying to draw Telly from memory, but we weren’t able to get his pear-shaped face right. We tried to transform the drawing into Elmo, and then finally into Elmo’s bearded dad (with an imaginary bit of fried egg dangling from his mustache).

By the way, the crumpled effect was an accident.