Coloring competitions

It was a pleasant surprise picking meimei home from school the other day.

Her picture was picked by the Art teacher to be the winner in the recent coloring competition held during the recent Open Day. She beamed with delight holding her gift and the picture was up on the notice board.

She likes art more than her bros somewhat and kept pestering me before to let her join the extra art classes after school on thursdays. I didn't relent because I thought it was peer pressure and she only wanted to play longer with her friends. Even more, I hated the idea that we would be succumbing to the $$ making ploy from children's innocence! (of course, that was just a bit dramatic)

Then again, I did admit to the teachers I did help her out a bit that day (as I was rushing her to finish it up so we could go gaigai). When I saw the picture again, I do think it was quite a neat job. I told her since she had proven herself to be good in coloring, I'm gonna give her a box of good quality crayons to play with later. What a pleasant surprise when it was exactly those crayons I was thinking about that was inside the wrapping paper.

Paul: I predicted you would win!

Soon, dd and kor were gonna have their art test in school. Dd's tajuk for Art paper was "My favorite toy". I googled image the internet to source for a simple drawing for him to practice on. It was love at first sight when I showed him the robot idea.

I tried to change his mind to be more challenging by pictures of Buzz Lightyear or Transformers, but he insisted on drawing the simple robot so I drew it out for him to follow. Advised him to color as colorful as can be and finally to outline it. I didn't think much about it later when about a week later, he came home to tell me he won the art competition! I wondered if it was a competition or a test, then kor told me they name it as a competition instead of test, but it's just the same thing. He got an A for it while he says the girl next to him got a C-. I asked him what she drew and he shrugged his shoulders adding "I dunno!".

Meimei took my drawing out and color it herself. After which, dd told me it's even nicer than his! hehe... he's so frank.

Actually it's a transformer. Meimei added the background to make it more "interesting".