Hello Everyone! Matthew is lying in bed snoring away like a monster truck, so I thought I’d write today’s post even though Matthew usually likes to write the ones about drawing prompt responses. I should first explain that he isn’t snoring away because he’s a lazy bag of bones – he’s actually just the fifth one in our family to come down with a cold and his nose is all stuffed up. And, to be fair, the rest of us have been snoring like monster trucks too.
Except for August, who’s just given up on sleeping altogether.
(You may now thank me for not posting that photo at full size.)
Anyway. I thought I could cut Matthew a break and write this post, this post that is purportedly about last week’s drawing prompt but somehow instead turned into a post about snot and monster trucks. This is probably why Matthew usually writes these.
Alright. Well, back to the business at hand:
So, last week’s drawing prompt was to draw something or someone floating. Alden has been studying space in school, and immediately knew what to draw:
She’s floating inside a rocket ship. She drew an escape hatch for herself out the bottom of the ship because she was feeling a little cramped. I love the idea of floating in space. Did you know that when you’re in space, there’s nothing to hold you down to the ground, so you just float? It’s pretty awesome.
That’s about twenty more reasons to become an astronaut (and one more reason not to become a cat).
I liked the thought of floating around in space so much that I drew myself out there among the stars.
I’m glad I could draw myself a lifeline, though. If I were out there, I’d want to be tied to something.
Kato, like Alden, gripped his pencil with inspiration and immediately knew what to draw.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what it is supposed to be and Kato refused to tell.
Matthew drew this:
The whole family floating in hermetically sealed bubbles. I think he was hoping that we could keep all of our own germs inside our own bubbles and not spread the plague. That’s what’s called “fantasy.”
And finally, I will move on to some actual submissions by actual kids who do not live in the barn. Spencer and Tyler are such stalwarts at drawing prompts, though, they are welcome to visit anytime. And we will make sure to have lots of candy and pie for them when they come.
Spencer decided to draw a floating pirate ship.
Though it doesn’t sound like it will be floating for long – “The pirate ship is dropping bombs in the ocean to sink the other ships. The minesweeper is picking up bombs so they won’t explode. The pirate in the lookout tower is trying to see the minesweeper, but he’s looking in the wrong direction! There’s also an aircraft carrier directing airplanes so the pilots have a good flight. All the boats are floating… but not for long if they hit a bomb!”
Yikes. I’m glad I’m floating way up in space out of the way of all that mayhem!
Tyler went the more peaceful route.
“My picture is of a shark floating in the ocean. He has a lot of colors but is NOT a rainbow shark. I’m taking a ride on the shark. He’s very nice. Also, at the bottom of the ocean, there are a lot of treasure chests and seaweed. The treasure isn’t floating. It sinks.”
I like how matter-of-fact Tyler is about all that treasure. I suppose if you’re riding around on a non-rainbow shark, you’ve probably got other things on your mind – even if the shark is very nice.
Well, that’s all for this week folks! I’m going to send out an earnest plea to get out your pencils and crayons and paper this week for the next drawing prompt, and SEND IN YOUR PICTURES! We love to see what you’ve been drawing, but when there are only a few drawings to talk about, you get stuck with a long ramble about snot, sickness and space! So sorry!
Thanks again to Spencer and Tyler for sticking with us. It sure makes me happy thinking of you drawing with us, even though we aren’t actually together.
