Photography, Nature, Happiness
Nature’s Happy Faces
Children will find them before you do.
Children love making “happy faces.” They love drawing them in pencil with three strokes — two dots for the eyes and a swooshy curve for the mouth. They explore ways to create them in their artwork with paint, crayon, scissors & paper, playdough, fabric, leaves, twigs, and rocks.
The most extraordinary happy faces are the ones they discover in nature. Children will be the first ones to seek them out and find them before the adults do. They scream with delight, their breath becomes faster, and then they quiet down so they can hold on tight to their discovery like a secret treasure — for 5 precious seconds — until they run away to tell the adults in their lives about it.
When we all see happy faces, it brings a smile to our faces, whether through art, our earth, or human beings — it inspires wonder, delight, and curiosity. Our children are the quintessential teachers to show us how to wonder, pause, and reflect — to appreciate the awe and beauty created in nature.
