happy feet… and happy faces
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Today I did some face painting with a group of other people at a small local festival. A few of us (including me) were fairly new to face painting so we had a little hands-on training day on Friday morning at the organiser, Kaye’s house to run through and practice the techniques and designs, and generally get organised.
Today we only offered a handful of options for the kids to choose from, to keep it simple - of course the girls all wanted to be butterflies, fairies and princesses and the boys all wanted to be skull faces, batman and spiderman. Special requests that we also did included Egyptian eyes and pyramids, fire breathing dragons, rainbows, flowers, a few ninja turtles, lots of happy feet penguins, and even the new spiderman - he’s black and silver, just so you know.
It was such fun, making small children happy and being up close and personal with them. Some are so shy and quiet during the painting and then reward you with a huge slowly spreading smile once they see the finished art in the mirror. Some kids are bold and brassy and know exactly what they want and how they want it. Some kids forget to say please and thankyou and some parents give you an idea of where their kids learnt their lack of manners from.
The vast majority of kids are so sweet and happy to have us paint their faces, choosing their favourite colours (pink and purple for the girls, almost exclusively) and wriggling or sitting stock still while we work on them. I am looking forward to doing more of this - thanks Kaye!
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