Whichever one she selects first is the winner. We then present our work and ask her to point out the animal. The rules are simple: jigg and I each have half the board to draw the same animal that we take turns selecting (the Dumpling currently can correctly identify 30+ animals, so we have a sizable pool to pick from). What started out as an educational exercise for the Dumpling somehow morphed into an ongoing doodle war between jigg and me. I posted the below picture and asked our friends to decide: who drew the better bunny? The consensus was that jigg’s looked like a rat. There was only one thing left to do whenever we have a trivial disagreement – we took our case to Facebook. Jigg cried foul and claimed that I had more practice. I showed her the board and asked her to find the rabbit. Without hesitation, she pointed to mine. He obviously disagreed, so we turned to the Dumpling for the tie breaker. I commented that it looked nothing like what it’s supposed to be and drew my version next to his. The ever changing artwork and the interaction kept her interested and bringing me the magna doodle has become part of her daily play.Įverything changed one day when jigg sketched a “rabbit”. Although the most I could get out of her were a bunch of scribbles, I would also take turns doodling to keep her engaged. I turned my sketches into a game where I would ask her to name or pick out the correct animal, object, or letter on the board. Its purpose was to introduce the Dumpling to drawing without giving me the anxiety of having to scrub crayons off the walls. The magna doodle started out as a relatively benign toy in our household.
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