His first school poster
Perhaps I am exaggerating when I say that it is his first poster, since we have obviously made posters in the past, but to be honest, most of the time I did it practically by myself, since the teachers demand excellence and children really don't have the ability to do something so clean and neat at that age. So I usually worked on banners or support material for an exhibition. Today I decided to stop doing that. If the teachers don't like it, I don't care, because the idea is for him to learn to do his own things.
And obviously I helped him with some things, but with simple things like the big titles (even though I'm not very good at painting huge letters), my son was very happy doing this activity because he always wants to participate and I tell him no because I wanted perfection in every poster they send from school.
I can't deny that it makes me quite anxious to see him paint or draw, since he doesn't do it as delicately and patiently as I would like, but I don't want to discourage him either, so I always praise his drawings even if they're a little weird, haha.
The topic is energy, specifically how to conserve energy. For some strange reason, the teacher told us to do this on three sheets of letter-size paper taped together. I don't know why she didn't just tell us to do it on one large sheet of paper, but anyway. The thing is, AI was useful today and helped me create a sketch of what the banner would look like, because honestly, I've never been good at this kind of design, haha. I really liked the design she sent, so I told my son that we would take that idea and put it on paper.
Although it wasn't perfect, it fills me with happiness to know that he was able to do it. I helped him and guided him through some things he did a little wrong. We had mistakes and successes, we laughed a lot, and we ate popcorn while we did our homework. Things I never experienced in my traumatic childhood, hahaha.
