Art is Life is Art: Susan Reep Photo Art

Last day of April and the Creative Every Day theme of the five senses is hours from being over. I thought, just for the heck of it, I’d do a little post about a quick way to engage all of your senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.  The quick and easy answer is – grandchildren.

Taste

Take the Davies Five to dinner at Fiesta Vallarta in Paonia, Co.

The food tasted great but there was a bit too much action inside to even think of a photo.  Looks like we have touch and sight engaged here, maybe even sound also.

Then, give your daughter and son-in-law two nights at the Redstone Inn.  Offer to watch the three kids.  Buy a special snack of jello people and give as much whipped cream on top and on the plate as the kids can handle.  I suppose jello has taste.  I think of it more as touch however.

Smell

For a pleasant image, imagine the smell of fantastic Mexican food.  Do not think of changing diapers.

Touch

Let the kids fingerpaint for the first time.  Try to get them all to sit still (ages 6, 4, 2) while  you get everything set up and try to protect the table.

Fingerpainting  apparently involves exaggerated motion.

It involves contorted positions.

It involves smiles.

Now we display the results trying not to touch the wet paint or put plates upside down on our heads.

Sound

Needless to say, all of this involved immense, mostly pleasant sound.  We also read books and Annabelle played music.  Jackson played Mario Cart.  Now (I’m not jinxing this) the three are quietly playing with the doll house and trucks.

Sight

It was all quite a sight.  But we did more art – creating piggy banks we could look at as we accumulated life’s fortunes.

Yes, I made one also.

Now, I’m sitting on the sofa writing this, watching it snow/sleet again, and thinking that Karen and Steve have been gone three hours tops.  Wow – and there’s still dinner, baths, laundry, and tomorrow.  And Sunday.

My senses have been fully engaged, that’s for sure.  And I’m already hitting on May’s theme of intuition.  My intuition to buy frozen pizzas for dinner was spot-on.  And hot dogs for tomorrow’s dinner.  Fully organic, vegetarian feed, no hormones, etc. etc. so it’s not as bad as it sounds.

Oh – one last example of sight.  The sky on the way to the store today was enough – too much really – to take in at one time.

Want a last-minute infusion of the five senses? I have some grandkids that would be glad to accommodate you while I take a nap.

Tags: children, Creative Every Day, fingerpainting, grandkids, painting, senses

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