Before Christmas, I noticed a post on my favorite teaching art blog about art journals. I made sure Santa knew that I wanted two art journals (and I was painfully, brand specific) for the big girls. Now that we've finally started journaling, I wish I had one for myself, too! :) Don't worry, I'm about to order it. I have every intention of journaling as often as possible.
Today was our first, official, journal entry (inspiration). The girls really enjoyed it, even though it was fairly simple. I am borrowing these journal ideas from artprojectsforkids.org. Check it out!
First, Hubby and I scoured the newspaper for some kid-friendly articles. Ack! There's a big, bad world out there!! ;) We gave each girl a clipping from separate articles with simple directions: highlight words to make a sentence...the words can't be next to each other and the sentence has to be coherent. I gave them an example and then said, "But you can't use mine!" haha!
I was really impressed with the outcome for both. Sunshine loves to draw, Belle is coming around. She constantly compares her drawings to her sister's, who happens to be 3.5+ years older. We remind her that when Sunshine was her age, the drawings were quite similar. Practice and patience...
Today was our first, official, journal entry (inspiration). The girls really enjoyed it, even though it was fairly simple. I am borrowing these journal ideas from artprojectsforkids.org. Check it out!
First, Hubby and I scoured the newspaper for some kid-friendly articles. Ack! There's a big, bad world out there!! ;) We gave each girl a clipping from separate articles with simple directions: highlight words to make a sentence...the words can't be next to each other and the sentence has to be coherent. I gave them an example and then said, "But you can't use mine!" haha!
I was really impressed with the outcome for both. Sunshine loves to draw, Belle is coming around. She constantly compares her drawings to her sister's, who happens to be 3.5+ years older. We remind her that when Sunshine was her age, the drawings were quite similar. Practice and patience...
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| Belle's -- age 8 (grade 2-ish) |
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| Sunshine's -- age 11 (grade 6-ish) |
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