Painting Pumpkins

One very rainy day this week, I decided to let the girls skip their nap and have a painting session.  Savannah was home sick so all three were there to get in on the action.  Instead of letting it be a free for all, I set two very different pumpkins on the table.  We looked at their lines, size, and stems.  We felt them and used different words to describe them.

Next, we put our words into our paintings.  I was pretty impressed at how well the little ones did.  They made sure to show the difference in the size and stems.  They tried hard to make brush strokes up and down for the lines in the pumpkins.

I learned that Lila is a perfectionist.  After drawing a circle for her pumpkin she said, "That is not a pumpkin."  The circle was less than perfect.  I tried to make her paint one over it but she wouldn't paint unless it was a clean spot on the paper.  It happened again with the moon which is why her paper looks a bit more crazy than it should.

Adeline's:


Lila's:


Savannah's: