The best way to motivate Pepper, I'm finding, is to assign something to Daisy. Suddenly Pepper is all interested in the project and takes off on her own, doing way more than I would have asked of her or she would have done for me had I asked.
Daisy and I have been exploring colors in art. We've moved on to the secondary colors and our first project was a symmetrical string painting. The idea was to dip two strings in two different primary colors, lay them in a sheet of paper, fold the paper in half and pull the strings out. The two primary colors would mix together, creating a secondary color. And we could talk about symmetry as the halves were mirror images.
Of course, as soon as the paint came out, so did every kid in the house from Rosebud on down to Sunshine. So everyone did the project. Unfortunately, the red and the blue did NOT make a lovely shade of purple, but rather an ugly blackish color, so Daisy and Rose Bud will not get their paintings displayed here.
However, here are Pepper (yellow and blue make green) and Banana Boy's (yellow and red make orange) paintings:
Over the weekend, Pepper took it upon herself to do further work with secondaries after she found 3 primary paint pens in the paint drawer. Here are her results (of which she was very proud!)
As I said, had I set before her the task of mixing and painting a picture using the secondary colors, it would have been like pulling teeth. "I can't! It's too hard. I can't think of anything to paint!" Left to her own devices, she did a beautiful job! (That's an orange and a bunch of grapes near the top there)
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