StArt – My Many Colored Days

My Many Colored Days is one of my favorite Dr Seuss books. I admit that I am not a big fan of his yellow creatures, but this book has beautiful illustrations and a meaningful story. We read it before, but this time Anna really enjoyed it and asked many questions about the use of font and the placement of words on the page. It was hard for me to answer some of them, because after all, this is how artist chose to represent different emotions. Anna kept insisting, by the way, that sad days are supposed to be blue and not purple like in the book.

This time Anna was very interested in an “obvious choice” – painting body outlines. She was not at all interested in making them “moody”, but she painted different outfits on them creating a family. I also got to paint one (and I guess you can find mine in the picture below). I was hoping that she will also add some embellishments on top of them (she had a choice of sequins, stickers, etc.), but she was quite satisfied with just having them painted. Her only disappointment was not having the fifth member of the family to be a baby (I only had four shapes). So she settled on the family of four – three of them had our names, and the fourth one was a brother – maybe Sam, maybe Jake. In fact, she started her first play with them by an announcement from mommy doll, I have great news! I am getting fatter, and it means that I am going to have a baby. It will be a boy. It’s been a couple days now, and she is still playing with her new paper dolls.

Come and share your books and story stretchers at StArt hosted by A Mommy’s Adventures.