Foster your childs creativity...

I love how the child's mind works!!! My children are so hilarious when they tell stories about their day or change the bedtime story around on you!!!

With the eldest having trouble with his penmanship and having to write letters for his class, we found him sitting and staring at a blank page doing nothing... He did not know what he was supposed to write... My husband and I tried to give him some ideas or something to start with... That failed miserably...

I came up with the idea to let the kids cut up old magazines so that they could use pictures from them... It worked great for the middle one learning to use scissors... We took all the pictures they liked, cut them out, and put them in a box...

Now when we have to practice our handwriting or are just plain "bored", we pull out the box and they pick out a picture... They get to glue it to paper and write a story about the picture they have chosen...

It has been great with improving penmanship in a fun way and fostering their creative sides as well!!!!

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Tiffany G. Oct 9, 2007, 10:30pm EDT

Thats a great idea THANKS!!!!

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Barbara B. Oct 9, 2007, 11:21pm EDT

When I was a child some 60 odd years ago Momma would
cut out shapes of paper dolls from the cardboard that the
cereal came in and then we would cut out different dresses
and stuff from a catalog that was fun time and dress up the
figures Momma made with the things we cut out.

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B F. Oct 10, 2007, 10:58am EDT

Barbara- that sounds like fun!!!

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Dawn G. Oct 10, 2007, 2:43pm EDT

This is a great idea. My grandmother and I did something like this with old Christmas cards. Then my mom helped me make a picture story once with a barbie coloring book. I would color the picture and make a story and then color another picture that would continue the story. It is great for the imagination and it is a great way to spend quality time with you child.

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B F. Oct 10, 2007, 3:11pm EDT

Those are great ideas Dawn! Thanks for sharing!!!

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Leah A. Oct 10, 2007, 3:48pm EDT

Good idea. I don't get magazines, so I wonder whether WalMart flyers would work??

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B F. Oct 10, 2007, 4:29pm EDT

Leah-I think anything with pictures would work... Old books the kids have destroyed can be cut up and used, old cards, anything... It is suprising what the kids can find even in a health magazine... Sometimes they even ask at the doctor's office if they can tear a page out of the magazine (usually they end up letting the kids have the magazine, because it is old anyways)...

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Marie L. Oct 11, 2007, 3:47pm EDT

This is very similar to what I do with my oldest -- she loves to cut out pictures and then make up stories about them. Since she is too young to write yet she will sometimes dictate a story to me and then decorate the paper. She also likes to add cut-out pictures to her journal. She has wonderful story-telling abilities :-)

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