When my daughter started Kindergarten this year, I had an idea to draw her a Pokemon to put in her lunchbox for each day of school. She loves Pokemon, knows almost all of the first 5 generations and picked out a Pokemon backpack and water bottle. What started as me thinking it would be a simple pencil drawing turned into something a lot more.
First, I am not an artist and have never really drawn before. All I did was look up the Pokemon and draw what I saw. Then I decided to outline them in pen and realized if I colored them, it would look better. Some days I made them way too big, others were hard to draw, some I messed up on the colors but none of it matter to my daughter. She loved it being a part of her lunch.
Her friends admired her drawing at each lunch and wanted some of their own. For her best friend, I started making one for her each day which made it a lot harder doing at least two a night and coloring them but it was worth it.
She is excited for me to keep it up in first grade and my son has already started talking about when he will get his in a year when he begins Kindergarten. I hope to keep this tradition until we run out of Pokemon or time in school!
by dislak