KEEPSAKES
What Color Was Your Day?
What’s blue and yellow and read all over? The
pages of your child’s first journal.
Even before he could write, my son Jack was
full of stories, so together we created a special
book for him (okay, me) to keep track of them.
Stash a small notebook (ours is a Moleskine,
$12, dickblick.com) next to a jar of mini colored
pencils (Crayola short colored pencils, $3 for 12,
acmoore.com). Each evening ask, “What color
was your day?” Then let your child choose a color
and get to work.
Some days Jack’s energetic scribbles produce
vibrant shades and broad strokes. On other
days, things are more tentative. Sometimes two
colors get combined. (I’ve had a green-orange
day, haven’t you?) I try not to prod Jack with lots
of questions, but I like to jot down his funny
comments (I use journaling labels like the one at
left, $2 to $4, scrapbook.com) on anything, well,
colorful that happened that day.
—Jennifer Hallissy
CLASSICS
Here Is the Beehive
Buzzzzzzz!
(Wave fingers.
Tickle optional.)
Here is
the beehive.
(Hold up
one fist.)
Where are
the bees?
(Look at fist
quizzically.)
Hidden away
where nobody
sees. ( Cover
fist with other
hand.)
Watch and
you’ll see them
come out of the
hive. (Bend head
to fist; remove
other hand.)
One, two,
three, four,
five. (Hold
fingers up one
at a time.)
