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SeaStar
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Posted: July 23 2007 at 11:42am \| IP Logged

I've been itching to do this, but with showing the house, and then thinking we'd be moving mid-August, I hadn't put any up.

This weekend I dragged a bookcase into my kitchen near the little table and chairs and set up an art shelf. The kids now have free access to playdough, waterpaints, scissors, paper, tape, crayons, colored pencils and a hammering activity all the time.(Dd is almost three, so she is pretty much past the fling and dump stage. ) The rule is that they have to clean up the materials and put them back on the shelf

Ds thought he'd die of joy- he can cut or paint anytime he wants. He's been painting and cutting non stop for two days. He goes over to the shelf, looks at it and says, "Hmm, what will be my next work?"

Maybe the novelty will wear off, but, since they can get all their own materials, they are spending much more time doing artwork (vs having to ask me all the time to get out the paints, etc). It was very eye-opening for me, and I felt kind of bad I hadn't given them more access before.

Now ds is asking for a science shelf for experiments...

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Posted: July 23 2007 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

Sounds wonderful, Melinda!

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Posted: July 23 2007 at 12:19pm \| IP Logged

That sounds great Melinda!! I organized several shelves over the weekend and have been making more materials as well! Thanks for sharing

They will have tons of fun! Good luck with the house!

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Posted: July 23 2007 at 1:18pm \| IP Logged

That is great! What a perfect response from ds!

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