the King of Everything's Easter Hat

 
 


We made the hat yesterday. I'm impressed with his art abilities. He can draw suns, clearly what he set out to do, with a circle, and lines radiating outwards. I need to learn how to draw so I can teach him how to see... but that can come later. I'm terrified of drawing, so I don't do it with Nico so often.

I'm so blessed, having grown up with a creative mother. I've got hoards of art things I've saved since we moved here, raffia from a package, a bunch of art papers I bought from the castoff bin at Pearl that moved with us, bits and pieces and odds and sods. The daycare suggested we simply decorate a sun hat... but I took a piece of green construction paper and made him a little cap, and we went to town. We talked about spring along the way, what it means, and we picked out birds to be our hat theme. A yellow sunshine to begin the project, then some trees, some birds, some flowers, and a bird's nest on the crown.

He is in heaven today. Very proud of his hat. His father went searching for a basket for the kid, and came home with an orange purse decorated with raffia and butterflies. Goes with the theme, but our kid's wearing a pink plaid shirt to school today, and while i'm not adverse to stockpiling blackmail materials for his adolescent years, that was taking it into the realms of... over the top.

He loved the purse, though he opted for a Peruvian bag my fabulous friend the future masseuse gave me, and I put his bucket from his cleaning trolley (don't ask) in his school bag, just in case. Honestly, i nixxed the bag because I love it. It's mine. And the opening is too narrow to shove loot into easily when you're three. Really. That's it.