Competitive art

Ah! The ubiquitous colouring competition!

The children were keen to try their hand in a local competition. Even Ewan had a go. (OK, maybe for him it was a bit more adult than child-led!).

Here's the results in order of age:




Isabelle cut out the top of the paper for added interest.











Aidan worked hard on his, really focusing on his fine motor skills.











Orla worked on both sides of the paper, lightly scrunched it into a ball then offered it to me as a gift.







Ewan drew as much on my arm and the table as the paper, but simply loved it - swooping the pens from side to side, apparently marveling at his ability to make a mark.






Oddly enough the younger three are all competing in the same category - under 6s. What the judging criteria are is a mystery, and these things always have a bit of randomness attached. But you can see from these pictures the breadth of developmental stages this category crosses.

I have given several careful speeches along the lines of "well, that was fun wasn't it! It's about doing the art really isn't it, not so much winning. And you know, sometimes, it might just be the turn of only one child in a family to get an award". (Aidan merely asked at this point when he would collect his prize, but I think he understands and was just thinking positively! The last colouring competition Isabelle and Aidan entered resulted in prizes, so that skews his expectations).

I think we would have heard by now if we were in line for something, but all the art will be displayed this Saturday, and I'm looking forward to seeing theirs up there for the world to see.



(Oh, in case you were wondering....yeah, colouring in, colouring competitions - not very "Playcentre". But, meh, they were keen and engaged which gave it a thumbs up from me!)