What precious preschool kids wash my car in the Tuesday afternoon class! The chemistry in this particular class is like nectar and ambrosia. It refuels this old mama, and makes me remember why I love this job, and why it is important.
Today we continued to tame our lines and make them behave, even as we used them to draw lions. We don't worry about not knowing how to draw a lion. Heavens to Betsy, no! The recipe for a lion is a baked potato, and everybody can draw a baked potato--even self-conscious grown-ups. Everybody can draw a spaghetti tail, and even french fries for legs. Should we dip them in ketchup? No, not yet. Does your lion have a pepperoni head yet? Blueberry ears? Curly snails for its mane? This is a lion made of round and curly lines, but it still might be ferocious!
Our lion might just need a thorn pulled out of its paw. I read James Daugherty's classic, Andy and the Lion, and was stunned when a four-year-old made the connection with the story of Androcles.
What if our baked potato lion turns out to be dangerous? We will use our lines to put the lion in a box. A box has corners. The straight lines sound like Daffy Duck: skraaatcchh; skwittchh; skraaatcchh; skwvitcchh. Should we make the box into a cage? You can make the bars by saying swavtksch, swavtksch, swavtksch... What if we want to take the lion to the zoo or the circus? Put some wheels on the cage. You are almost ready to meet Fluffy the Paintbrush. Fluffy is developing quite a fan club. Fluffy will be signing autographs soon. Stay tuned.
Oh, no. I didn't even mention that the kids started building "squeegees" out of the building straws and jacks. They are doing a really good job on windows. Some of them even built vacuums and dust busters to clean my car's interior. Maybe next week they will program my car cd player/clock/radio since I can't figure it out.
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