Sometime last year, we were at a restaurant where they were nice enough to provide paper and crayons for my daughter, but the paper didn’t have the usual “shapes to color in”, and the crayons were an odd mix (can’t remember exactly, perhaps … brown, purple and orange?)
I came up with a way to play on that paper, and this has since become a regular-is game for us, so I’ll try to describe it here.
- Draw a grid, not too large (8 by 8 or 10 by 10 seem to be a good sweet spot), with small squares.
- Take turns picking a random square, and doing WHATEVER you want in it.
- No rules at all, about what to draw. It’s okay to fill it with one color. It’s okay to fill it with two colors. It’s okay to make a single circle or square within it. It’s okay to have a wavy patter. Whatever you like.
The result ends up looking quite nice, and when we play this, we call it “making a quilt”. So yeah, try it out sometime 😀
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