My photos of my kids are better than your photos of your kids.

I took this collage I recently created and made two black and white copies of it. I gave a copy to each of my kids and asked them to take the images further, however they wanted. I provided colored pencils, markers, stickers, pastels, and other random tools and they went at it.

This is Sophia's (she's 4):

This is Nick's (he's 7):

One of the things that I most look forward to each day is receiving drawings from my six year old son.

Sometimes they are big and colorful:

Most times they're intricate drawings and stories made with his favorite medium, a Sharpie:

And other times they're so honest that they break my heart:

Encouraging my kids to be creative and to express themselves through art comes naturally around here. May it never end.

My wife hand makes dresses for little girls and sells them at an Etsy shop called sweet little bird. She recently set up shop and sold her dresses at an Etsy craft fair here in Charlotte.

Our six-year-old son Nick wanted to make and sell some things at the craft fair, too. So he cut up some paper and bound them with staples, found some fabric scraps and glue, and used a few colored pencils and his imagination to create the 4×4 inch, 5-page Firetruck Counting Book.

pages from Firetruck Counting Book by Nick Bellmas

Pretty cool, huh?

I think so. So much so that I ended up buying two of the books he made from him.

I love that my boy is this creative.

Alright you creative types: what could this photo be a print ad for?

© Armando Bellmas