A mum was so embarrassed she prayed the ‘ground would swallow her’ when staff at her daughter’s nursery called her in to discuss a drawing of what appeared to be a penis.
Amelia Barnhouse, four, picked a pink slide when she was asked to draw something from a recent trip to Breacon Beacons in Wales.
The child drew a long, pink and ridged slide complete with a rounded top and two large circular steps at the bottom, which left her teachers in fits of giggles.
Full-time mum Vicci, 34, was left mortified and her husband Patrick joked he would never return to the nursery after staff invited her in for a chat when she arrived to pick up Amelia on Friday.
Vicci, from Cardiff, South Wales, said: ‘I wanted the ground to swallow me up. It tickled us all.
‘I 100 per cent thought it was x-rated as soon as I saw it – it looking nothing like a slide.’
She said she was queuing to pick up Amelia as usual when one of the teachers asked her for a quick chat with a workbook to her chest hiding what was on the page.
Vicci continued: ‘She said; “We were just wondering what park you take Amelia to?”
‘Then she showed me the book and we had teaching assistants and other staff there and we were all roaring with laughter.
‘I didn’t want her to think we were all laughing at her so I said “Amelia, this is a really good drawing”.
‘We’ll be getting the book at the end of July to keep for future reference, so we’ll be saving it for her 18th birthday I think.’
Vicci added: ‘Patrick has actually said he’s not going to take her or pick her up anymore because he’s so embarrassed.’
But Amelia has enjoyed her new celebrity and was even awarded a gold star by her future headteacher for her efforts.
Her mum said: ‘The teacher said it’d gone right the way around the school and everyone had had a look at it.
‘Amelia’s in nursery and doesn’t start school full time until September, but it even went to the headteacher who gave her a sticker for creating it.
‘She’s already in the headteacher’s good books. She made her day by the sounds of it.’
Vicci said Amelia was the joker of the family, adding: ‘If she’s not on stage when she’s older, there’ll be something wrong.
‘She’s that child – the one who stands around doing something silly while you’re trying to get a photo.
‘On the trip we’d been on a little mountain railway – there was a tiny park there too.
‘Amelia has been to massive parks, but she chose this one to write about. This was last month and she’s kept that in her head since then.
‘The best part of it is she only went on the slide once – for the rest of the day she was on the see-saw.
‘She said the two round circles at the bottom of the slide are the big steps she tried to get up.
‘All jokes aside, she loves drawing. Her teacher said she’s actually really good, with the detail in this drawing for her age.’
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