the poetry of toddlers- Angelina

The poetic simplicity of toddler speech, united with the newness of experience and exploration, is art in itself.Noa

"Making a tiger

happy birthday to tiger,

making a house

wow!

paint,

paint,

paint."

William

"Paint body?" (motioning to a friends body)

I say, "No we aren't painting our friends. We are painting the canvas."

"My body?" (Pointing to his own chest)

No, paint is staying on the canvas today (pointing to canvas).

Boden

Hands in paint

movement

tapping

movement.

Patrick

Scratch surface

stare at mark

Revealed canvas.

Paint again,

Scratch,

Emersed.

Noa again

"PULL, PULL, PULL (dragging the paint down the surface of the canvas)

I wrote a "P", two "P's", not a "P" (Pointing at a third symbol drawn with brush).

I'm making a tiger (with fingers on wet paint)

I can make it like this...

or this...

or like this.

This is my finger, finger painting."