The Lesson Learned
The experience taught Mrs. Higgins a valuable lesson about teaching and perfection. She had started the activity wanting cute, Instagram-perfect bulletin board material.
Instead, she got a messy, hilarious, and deeply human experience that connected her class with the world. She realized that encouraging creativity means accepting whatever comes out, even if it’s a drawing of you as a multi-limbed swamp creature. The drawings weren’t “bad”; they were just incredibly, hilariously truthful.