kenyonbook

I buy reams of it and I don't say anything about how much they use.
I
have
some very artistic kids and I think it's due to giving them access
to
materials and not hording any of it.
I buy typing paper in large bundles, it's cheap and they can draw to
their
hearts content.
I keep the expensive artist quality paper put away and they ask me
for
a
piece of that, but I never, ever suggest it's wasted if they throw a
drawing
away.<

I am the same way, Ren! I find the cheapest paper possible and we
have stacks and stacks of it accessible and my children go wild with
it sometimes but produce some wonderful drawings and paintings,
too. When I was in the hospital giving birth two years ago, my 4
year-old was doing her thing, drawing a bit, throwing the paper down
because she was not satisfied, and my mother was just shocked and
insisted Emily draw on both sides of the paper and fill the paper
before she took another paper! Needless to say, Emily burst into
tears and would not be consoled. I had a real hard time explaining
to my mother that we never limited paper in our house! (I grew up
drawing on brown paper sacks from the grocery store and newspapers
when we ran out of the brown sacks!)
Mary, IA