David Laferriere, a graphic designer and illustrator from Massachusetts, has been drawing on his kids’ sandwich bags with a Sharpie marker for more than five years. 1111 bags and counting. “I’ve been doing it for my kids since they were little…They love it, and nothing makes me happier than hearing their reaction at the end of the day…I used to work nights at a newspaper, and I’d be up early in the morning making my kids sandwiches,” LaFerriere, a graphic designer at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, told Mashable. “I started drawing on the baggies, sort of as a way to channel my creative juices in the morning, and it just ended up sticking.” His kids, Evan, 16, and Kenny, 14, were both in elementary school when it started. Now that they’re older, LaFerriere said, they and their friends still look forward to the drawings every day. I’d like to keep doing this for as long as possible. Of course, things will change once they go to college — but I can still send illustrated care packages,” he said. See Flickr blog for the video. See Laferriere’s Flickr photostream for all of his illustrations. Cool!
Sources: blog.ficker.net and Mashable.com,
Love this!! My dad used to leave me notes in different colored pens and markers, but this guy takes the cake!! Or the sandwich bag.
Lucky you!
That my dear friend, is an understatement – I was blessed with the most wonderful dad in the world (in my generation – present company is exempted ’cause I have a feeling that you too are an awesome dad).
🙂 My kids know that Dad couldn’t pull a Stick Man out of a bag.
Your kids don’t need that – they have you, and as such all other men, stick or otherwise, are completely irrelevant.
ahhhh, how sweet…:)
This is beyond cool! I don’t have kids, but I hide little notes all around throughout my hubby’s luggage when he travels. 🙂
How cute is that!
A+ from me! Very cool.
🙂
I love that. I didn’t do anything like that at all for my kids, but when my daughter was in daycare and about three years old (and too many years ago!)…she would cry every morning when I left…until I started drawing a little dog at her table every morning. I had to make sure we were there in time for me to draw the same little dog doing something different every day…and then she wouldn’t cry. And then I wouldn’t cry either because she wouldn’t cry. I did that day after day after day. It was when I was working at UC Berkeley and she was going to a daycare center there. She still remembers that…and that wonderful man’s kids will REALLY remember what he did, which is amazing, on their sandwich bags. Sweet love! 🙂
OMG, what a sad story with somewhat of a happy ending!
Yes…when my kids cry, I cry too…so it all worked out in the end. She still brings up that little dog every now and then. It worked! Happy ending! 🙂
What fun! What a boring lunch-packer I’ve been … think of the possibilities I missed! I just couldn’t wait to train them to make their own lunches so I wouldn’t have to anymore…
Well this is no surprise and accounts for…
really, REALLY, need to quit leaving myself to open …
LAUGHING!
busy stewing. can’t fill in blanks …
too
so
If I keep quiet long enough, I’m confident you will fill in blanks. Or, stew about it without any provocation from me
I’d be kinda scared to eat the first one!
🙂 Cookie Monster look alike!
Fun!
I’m with Darlene. Not sure I’d want to eat the first one. But the alternative is a bird sandwich.
Funny. I never thought of it that way.
Yes, and he’s managed to keep it going all these years.
I love the comments about parents, or spouse, doing something similar like my sandwich bags. You are all awesome. Thanks for the sandwich bag love!
No David, YOU are AWESOME!