Sharpies on a plate

I decided that my kids, at nearly 8 and 6 are old enough to upgrade from crayola to sharpies providing they work on newspaper - permanent pens really are permanent!

We bought a couple of cheap, plain white plates, and this is what they came up with....we'll be hanging these on the wall and buying some more.

They loved the process and really concentrated whilst chatting to eat other about their patterns. 
I think working on ceramic rather paper made it much more 'precious' for them.

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