Open Letter
Dear Teachers of My Daughter's Four-Year-Old Class:
First, let me thank you for your restraint in terms of using glitter in the craft projects the children do. Your counterpart in the three-year-old class thought covering every project with glitter was the height of preschool art, which made life difficult for those of us who despise vaccuuming. You have thus far restricted yourself to glitter glue paint, which doesn't come off as soon as you look at it, and I appreciate your efforts not to cover my house in glitter specks.
And yet.
Please in the future consider applying this same discretion to your own pet craft item: the humble piece of candy. Yes, it's pretty. Yes, it's kind of cool to incorporate peppermints and candy corn and other seasonal treats into the children's work. But as you may already know, typical children's candies, even the hard ones, are water soluble. So when you take a piece of water-soluble candy and glue it to a piece of construction paper using a water-based glue, well, basic chemistry will have its say, usually all over the interior of Girlchild's backpack before we've even managed to get the thing home.
The pasta Christmas trees were cool. The pasta group is well-suited to being glued. Something to keep in mind as you pick pieces of candy off the floor.
Yours, covered in corn syrup and red dye #3,
Merlin
First, let me thank you for your restraint in terms of using glitter in the craft projects the children do. Your counterpart in the three-year-old class thought covering every project with glitter was the height of preschool art, which made life difficult for those of us who despise vaccuuming. You have thus far restricted yourself to glitter glue paint, which doesn't come off as soon as you look at it, and I appreciate your efforts not to cover my house in glitter specks.
And yet.
Please in the future consider applying this same discretion to your own pet craft item: the humble piece of candy. Yes, it's pretty. Yes, it's kind of cool to incorporate peppermints and candy corn and other seasonal treats into the children's work. But as you may already know, typical children's candies, even the hard ones, are water soluble. So when you take a piece of water-soluble candy and glue it to a piece of construction paper using a water-based glue, well, basic chemistry will have its say, usually all over the interior of Girlchild's backpack before we've even managed to get the thing home.
The pasta Christmas trees were cool. The pasta group is well-suited to being glued. Something to keep in mind as you pick pieces of candy off the floor.
Yours, covered in corn syrup and red dye #3,
Merlin