To remove ALL the black crayons....

[Washersaurus]

from DS' crayon tin, as he is currently going through an artistic 'black' phase?

Oh excellent - so I can tell my Mum that it's all her fault that I wear too much black and have an unnatural obession with vampires, because she sent me to a Montessori Nursery? I will have to send her a link

Haha to Thready. Me and my dp are always mimmicking Fast Show 'Blaaaack'. My 4 yr old ds is the same, he loves black.
Draws everything in black, wanted black bedding and school uniform.
He even likes listening to Jonnhy Cash (the man in black!!)
I've got no chance
I wonder what Montessori would make of him

lol! If you remove the blacks then you'll have to remove the browns, then the dark greens, the dark blues..................

do all nurseries take away black crayons or just steiner/montessori ones?

EmsMum - thanks for the suggestion, it sounds like a fab idea to try, but I am worried that if I gave him the black crayons back he wouldn't be interested in doing patches of bright colours for the fireworks...only the black!

He has done some beautiful drawing and colouring in lots of other colours this morning (since he wore down his black pencil crayon yesterday afternoon). Infact, today he seems to be favouring pink, purple, blue and orange.

Seeker - He does have a pencil sharpener y'know (just how mean do you think I am eh?), he just isn't very good at using it yet.

Ahhh Seeker, I'm sure he will want to adopt you at this rate .

Just to clarify; his 'black' artistic phase hasn't been restricted to just scribbling over his beautiful drawings, he has also accessorised my cream armchair and rug, the wooden flooring, and his little table and chairs with large black scribbles.

Ummm no Mary, obviously would prefer him not to do it at all, but I can confirm that black is the most difficult colour to remove.

Actually, other than 1 incident with the green crayon, he has never been inclined to do it in other colours.

or if you do return to england you could just have him be a year behind what he should be.

also if you moved to the us and started him earlier then he would be bored cos he'd have to do a year twice.

if you do decide to do the firework thing, don't give him the black til he's done the colours

ok no idea why my last two posts appeared on this thread

See in the back of my mind somewhere I have it that nurseries/schools sometimes don't have a black crayon as nothing is actually black (shadows are a deep blue etc etc).

But then what colour is a black crayon?

lots of things are black. i am wearing a black jumper right now

YABU. This is a normal phase for yung children and it will pass.

Well if black IS NOT a colour, but an absence of colour, then I believe that the absence of black crayons from DS' colouring tin is scientifically correct

Damn, you all beat me to it with the 'Fast Show' link!!

DD did this from an early age (we too were worried at first and then decided this 'depressed/abused' thing was balls) and we too went 'black...blaaaaack!' much to her amusement. She now says it like that when she's colouring in with it...

The firework picture idea is brilliant! We're deffo doing that tomorrow!

Oh er! I hate to tell you this but my DS, nearly 13, has asked for his bedroom to be redecorated and he wants the ceiling black and the walls black too!!!! I am a mother who deprived him of black crayons and paint! (Come to think of it, I deprived him of red too as he used it to depict blood!){shock}

Watch out! Don't take away the red crayons too!

By the way, over my red dead body will he get a black bedroom.

never given it a thought - why ban a certain colour - nobody gives a hoot if a child does a drawing all in pencil (grey). Freedom of choice in the robo house (as long as it isnt blue - but that is about footie)

Thank you naturopath. There's hope for my DS then!

Does that mean I have to reconsider his request????