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The finished product. Wanted to teach him outline, then thought may be messy...

Mummy's drawing. Not fantastic.


I find his drawing of Gerlyn resembles JoJo (cartoon character in JoJo's Circus).



Gerrard's trying real hard.

Gerrard is supposed to bring a drawing today for his Show-and-Tell. We managed to draw one yesterday afternoon, while all the other babies were asleep.

Mummy's not entirely an artist. I always managed to score in Art mainly because I was meticulous, not artistic.

So the approach was to draw with Gerrard.

Using very basic strokes, we drew together, step-by-step. From the face, hair, shirt, lollipop, school...

Then came colouring.

The most touching thing was that Gerrard was really trying very hard. The intense concentration..

He made a few mistakes and required a few practice of some drawings on the back of mummy's paper. But the proud thing was he finished it.

Realisations from this activity:

1. Gerrard wants to learn.

2. Gerrard wants to do things well.

3. Monkey see, Monkey do. So the Monkey must firstly be a good role model.

Just how many old monkeys understand point number 3?