Saturday, March 15, 2014

I heard that you like stickers to stick on your stickers with your stickers.

Caleb has been loving his art therapy.  Every chance he gets, he has been pulling me or my husband back to his art station, begging for us to supply him with more paper, more crayons, more paint stampers, and especially more stickers!  This boy is sticker crazy!

Caleb was sick on Thursday and Friday, throwing up from illness for the first time in his life.  And even with a bad fever and stomach pains, he still wanted to make art.  Of course, he was super grumpy, and a super sticker snob.  He would thumb through our piles of stickers, angry that he couldn't find that one perfect page of stickers.

We finally got his room looking the way we want it to:

 

And now his walls are covered with his artwork, which is awesome.  We want him to feel a sense of pride in his work, and the best way we can think to do that is to proudly display it.  If he keeps up at this pace, by Fall his walls will be wallpapered with his drawings.  Now wouldn't that be fantastic?



His work lately is mostly with stickers, but we are trying to encourage him to use the paint stampers and the crayons.  I even tried to get him to do some collage work with photographs I cut out of an old photography book; true to his stubborn nature, he would always go right back to what he likes: stickers.

I think that his sticker work is good for him.  Not only does it let him express himself, but it helps build fine motor skills and learn to focus on a task for an extended period of time. His pieces are intriguing and I do appreciate some of the artistic choices he makes in terms of composition, design, and color work.  I just wish that he would expand his taste in materials. 

But, baby steps.

He will get there.  Eventually.  :)

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