From Magazines to Art? You Betcha’!

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If your house is like mine, you have several magazines, catalogues or mailers lying around. You are also feeling a little guilty about how little art instruction your 7 year old has.

Here is a solution to deal with both.

1. Rip out a few options from which your child can choose a picture he wants to draw, that are within his abilities or interests.

2. Fold the image in half. Cut at the crease. Trim around the edges. Discard the other half.

3. Glue or tape the half-image to a piece of blank paper, leaving room for the other half to be added. Allow the glue to dry.

4. Using colored pencils, crayons, watercolors, paints – whichever medium your child enjoys (and you don’t mind cleaning up!) – ask your child to finish the picture.

5. Mount finished work on construction paper, or color a border. Viola’! You’ve nailed at least one of the “reduce, reuse, recycle” R’s and your 7 year old can check off art.

Darcy is the mom to three boys ages 8, 7, and 5 and blogs over at Life with My 3 Boybarians. She is the owner of a blog design business at www.graphicallydesigning.com. She and Handy Man live in Iowa…nowhere near a Starbucks.