The Cat and the Dolphin

Last week, En was doing some finger painting on a cat. Was trying to teach him "C" for "cat". He really had fun with his fingers swooshing around in the fingerpaint. I realised that its very "safe" (no active boy running around the house threatening to paint my walls with his fingerpaint!) to put En on the highchair when doing painting activities. The mess is minimal as I lay a piece of plastic on his high chair table top as well as the floor.

Today, I decided to do "D" for "dolphin". I got En to try and colour some dolphins. He chose all the crayon colours for the respsective dolphins. He would start colouring them and after a few swipes of the crayon at each dolphin, would abandon them, leaving poor mummy to finish up his colouring for him. :) Here is apicture of the Dolphins swimming around in the sea (made up of a lid of a printing paper box). In case you are wondering, the fluffy white bits on the top right hand corner of the box lid are clouds. :)

The dolphins were supposed to hang by a thread so that they can be "jumping" around in and and out of the sea. However, my attempts to hang up the dolphins were met with vehment protests of "no", "no", and "no"! I am not sure why. But En preferred sticking the dolphins directly onto the sea! Oh well, its his craft so I obliged. I realised that it could be that he is more familiar with sticking items with glue and pasting them on paper. So, maybe a different method of crafting didn't agree with him! The same thing happened when I shifted some of his drawings around in the living room. He was quite upset that I had shifted their position so I had to re-shift them back! Todders.. hmmphh.. only God would know what they are thinking about!