Luminescent color on our windows. Our nine-year-old adds colorful construction paper behind her paper snowflakes.
On not-so-warm winter days, we sometimes play where it is warmer inside. Paper play projects abound, and on this day the children were making paper snowflakes—as many children do. But these snowflakes were different...
I have learned so very many things from our little ones. One taught to me by our 2-year-old is that seeing a rainbow arching over our own home is so wonderfully worth remembering. Each night. Every bedtime. Weeks and weeks after the stunning sighting. His older sisters have just shown me that what makes a rainbow so heavenly—color—is also what makes usually-white paper snowflakes uniquely brilliant.
Photos printed on the scratch paper these snowflake silhouettes were created from, add beautifully unusual colors and patterns. A pretty discovery by our six-year-old.
With so many beautiful white snowflakes outside, I love our children's colored snowflakes inside. And their bright hues will carry us all the way into the cheerful colors of spring...
