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You Can Dance If You Want To

I know I’m dating myself (and I don’t mean a la Wang Chung), by quoting both Men Without Hats and The Who in this post, but it’s the first thing I thought of when I saw my kids dancing tonight after dinner.

Because of some mystical technical glitch we couldn’t get our hard drive to play music (our stereo setup is so complicated I’m starting to miss the old record player,) so we turned on the radio. It was playing typically horrible top forty music but the kids were digging it.

I think it was Maroon 5 and my seven year old son started slam dancing with his two year old brother. After some encouragement — “Listen to the beat and use your body like an intstrument” — he actually started grooving. And before too long all three of them were making a pretty good impersonation of “Hair” (now I’m dating myself again.)

So, carrying on a tradition started by my dad, I sketched the scene on a paper towel.

The Kids Are Alright

Filed Under: General, Kids, Cartoon   Posted: 12.13.07

Today

Swing

Filed Under: General, Kids   Posted: 11.18.07

Charleston Fish

Charlestong Fish 3

Here’s a picture I drew with my seven year old son. We call them Triptychs, but I’m sure there are many other names for them. You fold the paper in three and each person takes turns drawing on their section without knowing what the others have drawn. The only rule is that you have to put two lines at the top of the following section so that it all lines up in the end.

If you like to draw, nothing beats this.

Filed Under: General, Drawing, Triptych, Kids   Posted: 11.13.07