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"Kids
squeal with delight when they receive gifts and
mail" The
following article was written by Saralee Sky, M.A. Ms
Sky has 30+ years of experience with children, as a
mother and grand mother, as a therapist for abused
children, as the director of three nonprofit agencies
serving children, and as co-owner and manager of Womb
To Grow LLC and http://www.babynut.com.
Babynut provides natural, organic and alternative
products for pregnancy, adoption, childbirth,
parenting, babies and toddlers. Framing
Children’s Art By
Saralee Sky It
was my daughter-in-law’s birthday and once again I
faced the dilemma of what to give her. Jackie is
notorious for returning gifts and buying things for
the children instead. I wanted to give her something
she would keep and – more important – something
she would like! Percolating
in the back of my mind was an idea gleaned from a
recent visit to my sister’s house in Detroit. In her
den, Sheila had a shelf that spanned the width of the
room. Her TV sat on the shelf along with a collection
of framed children’s art, created by her children
when they were young and now her grandchildren. Sheila
framed them and in some cased matted and framed them
and then arranged them on the wall above the shelf and
on the shelf itself. There were so many pieces they
overlapped each other, but the effect was bright and
cheerful and – artistic! I
also recently watched an episode of the TV show, Play
With Me Sesame. During the episode, Grover sings
“Old MacDonald Had A Frame”. While he sings, an
image of a frame is filled again and again by
different children’s drawings. A picture of the
child appears to the left of the frame as their art is
displayed. This segment along with my visit to my
sister’s house helped me come up with the perfect
gift for my daughter-in-law. Lately
my granddaughter Crystal (soon to be 4) has been
drawing primitive people. She recently presented me
with two pictures, one of me and one of herself. Each
one was a great big head taking up about two thirds of
the page and angled to the left. There were two
circles for eyes, one much bigger than the other and
two circles inside the eyes to represent the iris or
colored part of the eye. She drew a circle for the
nose, a straight line for the mouth and two small
circles for the ears on her self-portrait. On the
picture of me, she did not draw ears because she can
rarely see my ears through all my hair! She drew a
scribble on the top of the head for hair, two lines
coming out of the middle of the head for arms and two
lines at the bottom of the head for legs. In short, a
floating head with stick arms and legs! I
took one of the pictures with me and went to a local
department store to check out mats and frames. I found
a double mat for an 8x10 size picture and a reasonably
priced 12x16 frame that fit the matt. I started
heading for the check-out when I turned around and
headed straight back to the frame area and bought two
double mats and two frames. I just couldn’t
frame only one of her pictures and besides, I wanted
one for myself! Back
at home I quickly matted and framed each of
Crystal’s pictures, hanging one in my office and
wrapping one for Jackie. I wrote her this note in her
birthday card: “For your birthday, here is a piece
of original art. Treasure it – it’s priceless.”
On the back of the frame I wrote the date and the
title of each picture: ‘Crystal’s self-portrait’
or ‘Crystal’s portrait of Nana’. The
day came for her birthday barbeque and we gathered at
my son’s house, four generations of people coming
together to celebrate Jackie’s 24th year
on this planet and the chance to be together for a
happy occasion. The time came for her to open her
presents. Crystal helped her tear off the wrapping of
each one. When it came to my present, she read the
card and I could see the question in her eyes.
‘Original art’? She removed the wrapping and her
eyes lit up. “It’s perfect!” she said. “Look
everyone, Sara framed one of Crystal’s drawings!” Graphics used from Email
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