Thursday, April 15, 2010

Pencil Sharpening Lessons from My 4 yr old

I sharpened a bunch of pencils with my 4 yr old this morning....


We used the glass slipper pencil sharpeners left over from their birthday party goodie bags... aren't they cute?..


Hers turned out sharp.


Mine did not.


She had almost no shavings. I had a lot.


I asked her what her trick was. "Just keep going. Doing is slowly and doing it hard-ly".


I should have known!

8 comments:

  1. I have a hard time with sharpening pencils too. I was a teacher for cryin out loud, too. I need to take note from your 4 year old. Thanks for the tip! :)

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  2. Geez MOM!!!! :D You should have known!!! Hee hee

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  3. who knew?!! ;) I like electric ones for that reason alone!

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  4. Oooh -- I /love/ those pencil sharpeners! Why do young'uns today get all the googies? :)

    (Maybe these were around back in the Dark Ages and I was just deprived. They're still pretty cute.)

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  5. Great tip! I will have to try it as I hardly have any success with sharpening pencils! Children are so cute!

    Blessing!

    Camie

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  6. Great instructions. We must listen to our young ones. They're pretty darn smart!

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  7. i want a slipper sharpener...SAVE ME ONE!

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