Love and Logic: The Dried out Marker

My daughter loves to color with markers. When its time to pick up she struggles with remembering to put the marker caps back on.

I let her know that if the marker caps are not put back on, the markers will dry out. Then we worked to put the cap back on together.

The next time, I asked her, "What do you think will happen if you do not put the marker caps back on?"

She hesitated for a bit and then said, "They dry out!"

The price tag on this isn't too big, so we let her figure out the problem for herself. It wasn't until one of the markers did dry up that it clicked. She picked up her favorite fuschia marker and began to draw.  "Uh oh," she said. "The cap wasn't on. It dried up."

Now I've noticed she snaps the marker cap to the end of the marker and then promptly covers the marker after she is done using it.