Sidewalk Chalk Drama

Stevi got some really nice sidewalk chalk in her Easter Basket this year.  I try hard to find fun useful things to put in Easter Baskets so they aren't just filled with sugar, sugar, and more sugar!! (my friend Susan would say, "whats wrong with that?")

Well Stevi and the little girl downstairs love playing with the chalk, they make rainbows, butterflies, happy faces, and flowers.  Of course since they are 3 and 5, 90% of what they draw looks like scribbles to me.

Yesterday a few older boys started messing with the girls so I told Stevi and her brother they needed to come home and bring the chalk, but when they got home more then half the chalk was missing.  Hunter said he wasn't sure what happened, that the girls had the chalk everywhere and the other boys might have taken some.  I wasn't happy, but I didn't think much of it.

Then today I received a phone call from the apartment complex telling me that it has been reported that my child and the little girl down stairs drew violent and and inappropriate things on the sidewalk in chalk.  I had to explain that my 3 year old daughter had her chalk taken by some older children, that when my children came home the only thing on the sidewalk was a few hearts, rainbows and a ton of scribbles.

So now sidewalk chalk is being banned form our complex.  It's both a sad thing and a good thing.  Good because my child can't be blamed for doing something she isn't even capable of doing, and sad because these older trouble making children not only bother my children, but now they have taken more then chalk from my daughter, they have taken something that she loved doing away, and now just a tiny bit of her fun has be tossed aside.