A New Rule for the Keilholtz Household

Once a week, more or less, we go to the Little Studio at MOChA (Museum of Children's Art), where Amalia gets to paint and make sculptures, and do all sorts of fun projects. Unfortunately she has decided that colored glue is about the coolest thing in the world, so she has been making pieces with great piles of colored glue, which are nowhere near drying by the time we have to go. Today marks the last day that I attempt to bring home artwork that features more than a superthin layer of colored glue.

Today we had the sort of breeze that one appreciates on a hot day, except when carrying four pieces or artwork, each made with lots of colored glue, each still wet, walking with a tired toddler and two sacks full of pork products (the Oakland Housewives Marketplace is in the same building as MOChA). I was able to keep the glue off of my clothing (miracle), the interior of the car (another miracle), but three of the artworks are now one artwork. Let's call it a triptych.

Fortunately Amalia is still at the stage where the joy of art is in the doing, and she rarely gets attached to a finished piece. In fact, the last time she had unlimited access to her scissors (and the reason that that was the last), she cut up one of my drawings into small pieces. I suppose she was trying to teach me some lesson about attachment. More likely, she saw it all as a great work in progress, and a lot of fun to be able to work with me on an art project. Or it was just another piece of paper dying to be turned into confetti.

But it is good that she does not get too attached to any piece of her work, as we will be leaving all of the great glue creations at MOChA.

Now, speaking of great glue creations, if you have toddlers you might want to know about the great goo one can make with white glue, water, borax and food coloring. We had a lot of fun with that stuff at MOChA today, and when I dig the recipe out of the bag, I will post it.