Kyla First Art Class

Kyla just began taking an art class yesterday at a new childrens boutique near where we live. She was really excited to go to art class since she absolutely loves doing art projects. There are only three kids in the art class and each week they do a different type of art. I think they have finger painting, water colors, molding clay...

For the first class the teahcer had the kids play with molding clay, but they did not actually fire it so it was more like playing with play doh. Kyla had fun playing with her clay and did well at following directions, but she was extremely shy. She barely talked to the teacher, the other two kids or to me. Hopefully by next week when she goes back she won't be quite so shy.

She has 4 more sessions of the art class and we will see how well they go before we decide whether or not to sign up for the next session. I was not really too impressed with the teacher or with the projects they plan to do, but I thought it would be good to get Kyla involved in something other than just her gymnastics class. We do so many art projects at home most everyday that I don't think she is going to benefit much from this class at her age. Kyla was so funny when we left the childrens store where the art class was she said "Are we going to art class now?", I told her "Kyla, that was your art class" and she said "Oh". I really think she just thought that she was for some reason playing with play doh at this store and really had no idea that it was her art class. I probably would have been better off signing her up for the music class they were offering, oh well maybe next session she will take music instead.