Materials: Illustration board, old magazines, glue or paste,
scissors (of course!), acrylic paint–the kind in tubes, not the
liquid kind. Once again, Rachelle at TinkerLab invited us to
participate in a materials challenge, this time using magazines.
So I brought it up with the kids, who are now 10, 7 1/2, and 3.
Did they want to do something? Sure! So we brainstormed.
Although there is a lot of making going on in our house,
especially as Christmas approaches, my kids didn’t look at the
magazines as raw material for some thing. I suspect this is
because when we get together to do art projects, we are usually
focusing on exploring and experimenting. It’s very much about
the process. So although my kids have used paper to make all
sorts of items, from super hero rings to dice for homemade games
(and since I always have to think really hard about making a
cube out of something flat, this impresses me every time!), they
viewed the magazine as canvas. The ideas they finally settled
on, which we combined, were cutt