Monet in the making

Well, maybe not exactly. But Wyatt loves to color and we do it at least everyday if not several times a day. He's really great at staying within the lines for a 3 year old and really enjoys the 'precision' or coloring. We are still using both hands--so much easier than moving the paper, right?? He writes his letters mostly with his left hand, but I've noticed lately that he always writes my name "mom" with his right hand. I copied a friend's idea of scanning artwork--a great way to preserve it without it taking up any room in our small place!

The only thing I'm trying to figure out is how to get him to write in the correct direction. If you notice in this first pic, he wrote his name backwards (and missed the letter Y). When he writes with his left hand he writes from right to left and vice versa with the other hand. It's as if he doesn't want his hand to cover what he's written. Any teachers have any idea on how to remedy this one??

We've been working on learning the sounds of letters and what letter words begin with, so these pictures were done as we were learning what green starts with, pink, etc. He really loves coloring these because the spaces are small and very defined for coloring. I don't know if you can tell this from the picture, but he hasn't yet figured out that if there are two "Y"s next to each other, that both spaces will be colored yellow. He colors each space individually and is careful not to color outside the lines. I just sit and watch him thinking, "You could save so much time if you just colored all the yellow spaces together!" but of course that isn't the point and I try and remind myself to let him figure it out on his own. It is quite humorous, though.