[Feline ballet for stripes, spots, solids, and extra legs--by preschool artists]
Last week's fold/cut art lesson was the starting point for this week's kitty cat climbing tower composition. I told the students a fairly plausible story about watching mama cats and kittens playing on a carpet-covered climbing tower with scratching posts in a pet store window over the Christmas break.
It's true there was a pet shop on the upper level of the Collin Creek Mall when we moved to Plano in 1990. My sons liked to watch the puppies and kittens in the store window. We were usually en route to the Mervyn's kids department to buy Cheetah brand sweatpants and sweatshirts. Adding furry pets to our household of asthma sufferers was out of the question.
Fast forward eighteen years. This student drawing is surely the mama cat with returned college-age kittens home for the holiday break. She is tired, and not sure whether it is safe to shut her eyes and go off duty. Parental instincts are earth's most powerful forces. Here she can't quite relax when her grown kittens are out driving after midnight.
Nancy L. Ruder
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