Dear Reese,
I ask our Google Home when toddlers can start coloring. It replies that around 12-month-old babies can start holding a crayon in their fists. You are 13 months. We have lost a full month of coloring potential.
I go to pull out some art supplies after dinner and run into a roadblock: we have no crayons in the house. We have markers, colored pencils, and Play-Doh, but no crayons, which definitely seem like the safest and least messy option (if you don’t immediately try to eat one). I pull out some orange Play-Doh, even though it says ages 2+ and you shove it in your mouth. I put away the Play-Doh. You have fun playing with their mini containers instead.
I do try to give you a marker anyway, after demonstrating coloring on a small piece of paper. But I’m too nervous to let you run wild with it, and you aren’t interested if I’m guiding your hand on how to hold it correctly. You end up pretending to color a little with the cap still on and have fun getting all the art supplies out of the container and onto the floor.
We will find you some crayons this weekend.
Love,
Mama