Bunica and Bunicu both sent flowers for v-day, and we've been watching the tulips open up a little more each day.
It makes for the perfect sketchbook prompt, this slow and steady tulip story.
We played with words as well, adjectives describing the different tulip faces (shy, tender, gallant, curious, delicate, etc.) and verbs to describe how the tulip occupies space in the world (shrug, bend, waver, falter, assert, transfigure, unwind...).
Prophet complained about not being able to hit the right shade of crimson in her sketchbook- not finding "the tulip's hair color"- so I encouraged her to cross-hatch a few shades of red, purple, and orange colored pencils but she was still not pleased with the final result. Perhaps you can get the picture without a picture?
