Body Tracing

This little bobble head creation is the result of needing to distinguish C's bedroom door from the rest of the doors in our hall.

I taped a few large sheets of paper together to make one sheet large enough for Miss C (who was 2 at the time) to fit on.

I traced around her in pencil and then darkened the lines with marker .

She thought it was a riot to be standing on herself...

I set out the markers and crayons and let her have a free-for-all.

Having a nice snack...I don't want her to really be a "starving artist"

At around 2, she was going through a phase of just coloring in certain areas: 

face

hands

feet

the end.

As soon as those areas were colored in she was ready to quit so in order to keep her interested in continuing I set out some paint.

I don't know about you but I love using egg cartons as palettes!

As soon as this beautiful work was dry I cut it out and taped it to her bedroom door.

I wasn't really pleased with the way the head turned out 

(since I traced around her quite lopsided) 

so I printed out a picture of her face and taped it onto the body.

This didn't stay on the door very long after A learned how to cruise, she ripped it right down.

That's alright though because I can see C's door from my bed and that little person kept scaring me!

I always thought it was C standing at her door.

Now the girls share a room so maybe we can make two new ones to adorn the door

:)

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