Tomorrow at the PCH I am going to paint with beet juice. Mom Dad and Me class is always on the fly...and I am learning more than I thought. I am learning how to plan just enough to be prepared. But not so much that I am scrambling to stick with my lesson and forgetting to have fun. It is hard to be responsible for someone else's creativity. I find that I have to really put myself in the kids' shoes. What would they be excited to do? What are they gonna love when they walk into the room? Treats always help. Storybooks seems to help too. I am teaching more than just how to lay down paint. I am teaching them to explore. That is why I thought of the beet painting idea. One day I just poured a can of beets onto my canvas...it was so Dr. Suess! I felt liberated from the last year of thinking til I couldn't be creative anymore, then BAM it was undone. I hope the kids like it.
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