One afternoon last week I needed to get the school age kids out of the Center so the younger kids could rest. We'd already been to the Little park and they didn't all have swimming gear for the pool. Not really knowing where we were going to go, I packed up boxes of crayons, a pack of drawing paper and some trays to put the paper on while drawing.
We started walking looking for a shady place to sit and draw. Since we didn't want to sit in people's lawns we needed to find a public place. Then it occurred to me--the town square! We divided up into groups of two. They were told to find a shady spot on the courthouse lawn
and look around the square and draw something that caught their eye. It was interesting to see what each child saw.
The Movie Theater
a lady bug on a leaf
Tree, park bench and steps to Court house
Tree, boulder and bird
What's written on the boulder
The satellite dish on top of radio station
While they may not have captured the images of things that remind me of what our community has to offer but they showed me parts of the town that I too often overlooked.
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