Sawyer and the Pumpkin Squares

We were doing a lesson on following pictoral directions. The kids were delighted that we were making Pumpkin Squares. Graham crackers, icing, and pumpkin spice--these were tasty ingredients. Each group lined up at my big desk and pushed their paper plates down the assembly line. Several of them spent more time at the icing area, making sure that they had "enough" icing in between their graham crackers.

When Sawyer reached this part of the line, he smeared the icing onto his graham cracker. Then to make sure he got everything, he opened his mouth wide and proceeded to put the whole spreader in his mouth.

"SAWYER, STOP!" His eyes got wide as he realized my horror and what he was about to do. (Even though it really was the most logical and natural thing to do with icing.) He stuck the almost germified knife back in the icing and burst out in tears. He could not stop crying for several minutes. My tough stubborn little Sawyer hugged me and cried and cried. He didn't even want his Pumpkin Square.

I guess he was afraid of disappointing me, even though he will fight about simple things like sitting with all of the other children on the rug or doing his work.