How I laugh

As we were finishing up our latest art project, Angel, one of my students, needed to fix her painting. She had done a wash with three colors and didn't like the way it turned out so she came back up for more paint. As she was moving the brush across some blue paint landed on the butterfly she had drawn. One of my workers who was helping Angel said, "Oh he's ok!" and Angel turned to him with her big, serious, brown eyes and said, "That ain't a he it's a she! And now she's blue! That ain't right!" Oh how serious she was. It took all my strength to simply smile and not laugh out loud at her cuteness as I overheard the conversation.

U Serious? PINK chocolate?

Easter has come and gone and I have been a terrible blogger since then. My apologies. Urban Arts has kept me busy busy busy! But here is a cute story from one of the boys we work with.

For our Thursday night class the week before Easter, instead of holding the drama and art classes we normally have, we decided to bring all 35 kids together and teach them how to make molded Easter chocolates. We had everything set out on long tables and two ladies were in charge of melting the chocolate down. I thought it would be neat to have different colors of chocolate..green, yellow, blue, purple, pink..all pastels for Easter. As the kids came up with their mentors, one boy, Larry, said ' What that?' as he pointed to the colored chocolate. I said, 'What the chocolate?' He said, 'yea'. I said 'It's chocolate but a different color so you can have Easter colors for your mold.' He said 'I don't eat no pink chocolate'. I laughed as he went for the milk chocolate and made his little Easter bunnies and crosses.

This was the very first time for all of the kids to make chocolates. They had a great time and it was nice to be able to be in a relaxed environment with them!