Markers

Beatrice loves art. Every morning she points to the baskets of paint and markers and says, "pai, pai" (paint) or "mo, mo" (more). We do paint a lot, but she works with markers even more often because I assume it might be a little easier for her to work independently while I clean up some dishes. She does pretty well with them and loves opening and closing the tops, coloring on her pants, the table, her chair and even on the paper once in a while. (thank goodness for washable art supplies!) She also likes to put the markers in her mouth. I generally catch this pretty quickly, but one day I learned a new fact about markers. You can actually suck all the color out of a marker! If one were to nibble off a small piece of the marker tip and suck very hard for a little while, all the color will come into one's mouth and the marker will be left with a white tip! Thanks for that discovery, Bea!