Unicorn

This is a unicorn puppet that Molly created last week (and wrote her name on).

Until about a month or so ago, Molly's artwork was mostly scribbles. Then, it seems, the stars aligned and her artwork exploded. Just about the time that we (finally) set up a dedicated, kid-accessible "art corner" she also seemed to hit her stride with coordinating her fingers, hands, etc. Was it the steady stream of paper, markers, scissors, and tape that was suddenly at her fingertips? Was it an inevitable developmental leap? Either way, these last weeks (months?) have given us an increasing flow of creations. There's the writing (she calls from the other room while I'm cooking: "what are the letters in..."), and the cutting, and the folding, and the drawing. It's exciting to see what she creates! The day we made pumpkin pie (from scratch!) she constructed a vine with two 3-d pumpkins - with cut up yarn pieces inside to represent the "stringy stuff".