The artist

Lizzie has turned into a prolific little artist. Her primary tools are markers, paper, and a stapler. She draws wonderful pictures, creating scenes that use the whole piece of paper. She draws people, monsters (eek!), the sun, grass, the sky, clouds, cars (for her sister, who loves cars), butterflies, jellyfish, hearts, and much more. She makes books, using a few drawings stacked together, folded and then stapled at the fold. She makes paper plates by drawing on a piece of paper and then folding/curling the edges up. She makes fans by folding a piece of paper like an accordion and then turning the end over and stapling it. She makes bags, by folding a piece of paper in half and stapling around the edges and leaving an opening. She makes paper airplanes, which don't really fly (but she's a bit young to be making ones that actually fly). The list goes on. There must be many great pictures hidden in folded and stapled paper. This has been Lizzie's primary activity during the last half of the summer. I swear she's used more than a ream of paper in less than a month. I'll try to get some pictures up on Picasa, and maybe post some down below.