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Is it a good idea to encourage a child to keep a journal?

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From the lens Art Journals for Children.

  • lilymom24 Mar 15, 2012 @ 10:44 am | delete
    This is such a neat idea and great craft project for the younger kids.
  • glowchick Mar 22, 2011 @ 6:33 am | delete
    I love this idea! Thanks for sharing :)
  • violette Aug 11, 2010 @ 10:29 am | delete
    What a wonderful post! I only wish that I have been encouraged to keep a visual journal when I was young. I encourage my kids to draw, paint and create crafts however I never thought about encouraging them to keep a journal. That was 30 years ago ? I definitely would do that today. I love your son's journal pages!

    Love, violette
  • eclecticeducation Jun 22, 2010 @ 6:14 pm | delete
    You have some really cool ideas here. I love seeing your son's journals. Gives me a lot of ideas. I think I need to go fetch our old National Geographics. Great lens. Btw... Thank you so much for the blessing!!! I so appreciate it.
  • dagsmith Jun 21, 2010 @ 9:00 am | delete
    Great Lens. I tried with my daughter last summer - I'm going to take some ideas, have her read this and see if it sparks any interest.
  • Qualitee Feb 7, 2010 @ 2:40 pm | delete
    I think it is a great idea for kids to keep a journal. DD is loving it. DS is loving cutting out and very slowly getting into the idea of a journal. This lens has shown me how to encourage him...........thank you. 5*
  • Pukeko Feb 4, 2010 @ 8:29 pm | delete
    I love this idea. When the girls were younger, they did art journals on our holidays, and they are the best souvenirs we have! I have featured this at: By Kids 4 Kids - A Group of Squidoo Websites for Kids
  • whitemoss Feb 4, 2010 @ 1:59 pm | delete
    A really lovely lens Bev!
  • LeanneChesser Feb 3, 2010 @ 6:26 pm | delete
    I love this lens and your story about AlexFish is so awesome! I think teaching kids to journal is a great idea for expression of challenges, creativity, dreams . . . anything. Blessed by an angel.
  • Heather426 Feb 3, 2010 @ 12:57 pm | delete
    great idea! lovely lens too.
  • Waxing-Lyrical Feb 3, 2010 @ 11:20 am | delete
    I think anything that keeps a child interested, educated and motivated in a fun way is really a good thing. These journals are a great idea :)
  • prosperity66 Feb 3, 2010 @ 4:44 am | delete
    Wow! What a beautifully crafted and presented lens! And what a nice topic too!
    However, I'd have a question... Why the Thanksgiving theme?
    Anyway, blessed by a SquidAngel.
    Dom.
  • theraggededge Feb 3, 2010 @ 5:11 am | delete
    Hey Dom! Don't know how you found this - am still working on it and you blessed it already! Great start - thank you!

    I used this theme because it has a nice warm feel. I don't think it's too obvious it's for Thanksgiving...? I was going to add a little section about gratitude and appreciation in any case.
  • prosperity66 Feb 5, 2010 @ 3:19 am | delete
    You did very well with the brown theme which is a beautiful one - was actually the turkey that was too much, lol. But the overall look was terrific! Now the purple/blue theme is fine too. So, definitely deserves the blessing that I won't retract, lol.
    Ok, I'm off to make corrections to my blog post - I just spoke about you using the Thanksgiving theme for this lens, hahaha.

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