Painted Plaster Chalkware 1970s Cookie Monster Wall Hanging! hime decor it's an old stair baluster

it's an old stair baluster into which little faces were carved on both sides of one end

with wear and some dryness/light cracking to the wood (which I have not touched)

but I assume they were used for testing and teaching the ability to translate the number and color of dots on the cards into language

quite some years ago

which I'd like to think were inspired by the work of Bridget Riley

Painted Plaster Chalkware 1970s Cookie Monster Wall Hanging! hime decor it's an old stair balusterPerhaps it has to do with being a child of the 1970s, but there was no way I could turn my back on this! And hard not to start talking in a Cookie Monster voice and breaking into song when I look at it. Just fun, and handily wired on the back, making for easy hanging somewhere near the cookie jar! Made of chalkware, then hand painted. I especially like that it is deeper at the bottom, allowing for some volume to the many cookies spilling forth. 10 1