A primary school art teacher has received a good deal of praise since her daughter posted photos of her special school project online.
Rebecca Bonner teaches at Mcauliffe Elementary School in Highland Village, Texas. In total, she hosts art classes for about 580 students who are aged from 3 to 11 years old. Bonner always tries to encourage her students to be creative by telling them to “turn their mess-up into a dress-up”. So as a way of giving an example of her words, she invited all of her students to draw freely on a white dress that she brought to school. For two weeks, the young students used their pens to add their own little designs to the dress. The art teacher then showed their work by proudly wearing the dress for a school art show.
Her students were not the only ones happy to see their art come to life — Bonner's 20-year-old daughter Charlece Lake was so moved by her mother's project. Charlece took some photos of Bonner wearing the dress and posted them to Twitter, saying that her mom was “the cutest art teacher ever”. Since posting the pictures, they have been shared thousands of times.
Though Bonner was surprised that her project had been widely known, she said that she was happy for the chance to serve as a good role model for art. “I'm not worried about being famous or anything like that but I do think it's great to promote (推广) the arts, because art is not common among primary schools,” Bonner said. “I think it's really important for kids to have that place to create, and thatfreedom(自由) to create,” she added.
