There is a wonderful art association in our town that holds art camps all throughout the summer, which Liam just loves. Week-long camps that are divided into half day sessions – they are perfect for the attention span of 4- and 5-year olds. And they teach them to make some really cute stuff. Lots and lots of really cute stuff! The only downside – if you could even call it that – to this is that they bring home that really cut stuff by the trunk load and by the end of the summer your house ends up looking like the behind the scenes shot of a disorganized pre-school.
Liam, naturally, is very attached to all of his wonderful creations and wants to keep them and – much as I love a pristine home – consigning them straight to the dust bin seems too hard-hearted even for me. So they hang around for a while – just long enough for the attachment to fade just a touch – and then we effect a compromise. Liam gets to pick the three pieces he really can’t bear to part with and all the rest get digitized (I scan or photograph them) and then they are given a fond farewell.
The photos make their way into his annual Shutterfly album and last year we had so much we even published a special Shutterfly book – Liam’s Art Alphabet. We assigned one letter of the alphabet to each art work and plugged the holes (we did have to get a bit creative with naming some of the objects – how many things actually start with ‘X’) until we had all 26 letters covered. Liam took the book to his first show and tell for pre-K very proudly. It’s a great idea all round. We get to keep an accurate memory of all his wonderful youthful creative in a form that Mommy can neatly put on the bookshelf - (which is much more to her liking than constantly trying to work out how to dust a paper machier fish!)
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