Paper Artwork

We go through reams of construction paper in our household. We let the kids use as much as they want for whatever they want. Surprisingly enough, they've never abused that privilege. Some days they draw, some days they cut. The past couple of weeks has seen a lot of cutting.

One Sunday Viva brought home a set of finger puppets from Primary (church Sunday school). Bentley liked the idea of finger puppets, so he got out a pen, tape, paper, and scissors and went to work. After the first puppet he wanted the others to be the same size. He asked me for help. I showed him how to use his first one as pattern for later ones. Instead he recruited me as cutter.



The following week Jake decided he and everyone else in the house needed bookmarks. He cut book marks of every size. He gave some to everyone. He cut extras for himself. He left a pile of bookmarks out on the counter overnight. Kara wanted to throw them out, but she wisely just moved them to the mudroom. The next morning Jake demanded to know where his bookmarks were. Kara tried to tell him he didn't need bookmarks since he couldn't read. He didn't fall for that lame argument. She had to give him back all his bookmarks. (She claims she threw out two and he didn't notice.)


All the kids have been making tape and paper piece animals. Kara wrote about Bentley's pterodactyl a week or so ago. After that Jake and Viva were inspired to make animals, too. Viva made a dragon.


We need to buy more Scotch tape at Costco. We tried an off-brand tape, but Bentley said it just wasn't any good. It was much harder to get off the dispenser.

P.S. Kara asked me to include these three fine examples of Jake's creative eye and great cutting skills. He produced these three animals (fish, elephant, duck) all one his own.