Paint Your Own Pottery

February 16, 2009

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” -William D. Tammeus

Last Friday K was out of school and we were invited by friends to join them to paint pottery. It was so much fun. We went to one of those places that has lots of choices to pick from for your painting creations. If you haven’t been to one I highly suggest going. Mom and I took the girls a year or so ago to a different studio in town. K and E painted little snack bowls that time. I thought it would be fun to have M paint this time also. She was really looking forward to the painting too.

I dressed everyone in clothes that could get ruined. If I came home with three little paint wearing Picassos, I wouldn’t mind a bit. Turns out they didn’t have any paint on them at all. If I had dressed them in nice clothes they would have been trashed. That’s just the way it works when you are raising kids!

The girls each painted their own plate. These are going to be their new dinner plates. They are really salad size plates, but they are perfect kid size plates. I’m anxious to see how they turn out. I took them one at a time over to the paints so they could pick their own palettes. It was fun to see how they picked their color combinations.

K painted a black moon and a sun on the top of the plate along with lots of additional colors. E has her colors all over with no certain pattern and M pretty much has a brown plate! I think they will love having their own creations to eat each night.

We go back Friday to get their little masterpiece plates and I can’t wait to see them on the dinner table!