I was going to post an old photo or two today in honor of the 3 to 5 inches of snow that fell last night, but as I put my picture in the scanner someone tugged on my arm and asked me to draw instead. And so may I introduce to you for the first time appearing in this journal, Snowbird.
Snowbird is 4 years old here and she is very proud of her snowman. She actually had real coal to use for his eyes, nose, mouth and buttons. One of the first things Snowbird learned to draw by herself was a snowman. In fact, most of her coloring books have snowmen scrawled all over the end pages, but they have carrot noses and flowers in their tophats like Frosty the Snowman.
Snowbird will only draw with a sharp Crayola crayon. Once the crayon has lost it’s crisp point it goes back in the box for good; usually the black first, then the blue-purple, then the purple-blue, then the blue, until all she has left is very sharp yellows and oranges. She has found the “built in crayon sharpener” to be very ineffective as it breaks off the whole top of the crayon, leading to much frustration and even a tear or two. When given a fresh pack of construction paper she quickly goes through all the white pieces first.
“Why don’t they make whole packs of white construction paper?” she asks.
Well, if you didn’t have all those other colors you couldn’t make red valentines or orange pumpkins, Snowbird. There’s all kinds of fun things you can make.
“Well I like the white pages.” Alright, we’ll have to get you a big, empty sketch book. We’ll do that today on my lunch break.
“Is it lunch time yet?”
See, I told you she was impatient.
In the meantime, I just found the Crayola Custom Crayon Box Builder and other neat stuff that they didn’t have back in 1978. This should keep Snowbird busy until lunch, making her own box of 64 sharp black crayons.
