Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting it is wonderfully irregular in

it is wonderfully irregular in form as well as surface

and am just completely in love with them as objects

especially down the front for marking the bodice and all around the base for marking the hemlines

Froebel Gifts 2 through 6 (aka "the Building Gifts") are wood blocks in various shapes and quantities

Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting it is wonderfully irregular inI love this watercolor, and the tramp frame, and think they make a happy marriage. (Forgive the glare in photos.) Santa (who happily looks more like dad as Santa than "Santa") was executed on orange construction paper mounted to green, dated Dec. 13 and signed AW at the bottom left. Fabulous beard, fabulous boots, fabulous decorated tree (which Santa appears to be hailing), and this curiously sparse arrangement of objects underneath the tree a tiny