Art Journaling With the Kids
September 17th 2008 13:09
Yesterday’s art project went extremely well. My children loved the project so much they didn’t want it to end. That’s a success story in itself. They also loved that fact that I was right there creating with them.
The kids and I worked on art journal pages depicting what we like and what makes us happy. Here’s what I did:
1. fold a piece of paper in half for everyone
2. get a magazine for everyone
3. place scissors, a glue stick and markers in each workspace
4. cut out pictures from the magazines that “we like” for five minutes
5. pass the magazines around in five minute increments so everyone has a chance to work with all the magazines
6. fill the folded paper up with the cut our images collage style, leaving space for text here and there
7. add words that make us happy (I used coffee, cheesecake, art, my children’s laughter, gardening, sunshine, autumn, flowers, cookies, snuggling, butterflies, and daisies as my “happy” words.)
8. add squiggles and coloring the rest of the blank space on the page
Today, we’re going to work on another folded page. This time, we’re going to draw pictures and write words about what has made us happy or things we liked that happened throughout the day.
Each of these pages are going to be bound into their own little art journals when we’re finished. We’re going to continue working on folded sheets for the rest of the month. It takes about one hour for the four of us to complete the project from beginning (setting everything out) to end (cleaning up), so it’s quality time that is manageable in our schedule.
Does this look like a project you’d like to work on with your children? What kind of “quality time” projects do you work on with your children?
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