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Snakes, fingerpaint on fingerpaint paper


Untitled, fingerpaint on construction paper


Footprints, fingerpaint on fingerpaint paper

It's hard to believe, but my son created all these masterpieces in one afternoon. He even named them. (Well, two of them.)

The Man-cub is intrigued by painting. I don't do a lot of crafts with him because I have this general feeling he can't yet, or doesn't want to, do that stuff. I'd say he's more of a gross-motor-skills kinda guy. But I want him to be comfortable -- no, happy -- creating things, because I want him to grow up thinking of himself as creative.

So I hope he doesn't mind I'm blogging about his art for the We Heart Art carnival. As the bloggers there pointed out, "Pablo Picasso once wrote that 'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.'"

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