Paper Bag Art Journal for Kids

Over the summer, I had fine art camp here every day for v weeks. On day one of each new session, the commencement affair we did was brand an fine art periodical. It was something that could be used throughout the calendar week, if the kids were done with their projects early, or if they had an idea they wanted to sketch. Nosotros talked nearly "thinking and working similar and artist", which means keeping a journal close by to write thoughts or draw or pigment or glue…whatever moved them! The kids LOVED making these journals. They idea it was so cool that their names were on them, and that they could fill it up with anything they wanted. Plus there was a nifty handle to bear it effectually. Winner!

Supplies for making the journals:

paper bag // iii or more sheets of 12 x xviii sulphite paper (or other newspaper that size, i just happened to have sulphite paper and love the density) // evidently or colored masking tape (I used painter's tape) // hole dial (1/8″) // brass fasteners

Instructions:

1. Cut downward the sides of your paper bag and cut off the lesser. You will now have 2 separate newspaper purse sheets (with handles).

ii. Fold the within paper yous are using in half and lay it down on ane side of the paper bag. Trim around the paper leaving a bit of a margin. Trim the other newspaper pocketbook canvass.

3. Tape the two sides together. I put tape on the outside and the inside.

4. Punch a small hole at the top and bottom, going in every bit far as your hole punch will let you. Punch the hole close to the fold, only not on the fold.

5. Open up the bag and lay the folded paper within, mark where the holes are on the white paper. Now punch holes in the white paper right on the fold.

6. Insert the brass fasteners from the outside and secure them on the inside. Voila!

I actually taped the two sides together and and then had the kids paint and decorate them before I fastened the inside sheets. After the paint and glitter dried, that's when I put in the sheets with the fasteners.

Supplies for decorating the journals:

letter stencils (optional, you tin freehand) // watercolor paints // brushes // glitter glue // glitter (messy and heady culling to glitter glue) // white gum in a bowl with a brush (if you use glitter) // neon chalkboard pens

We glued envelopes inside the front cover. This was strategic in in one case sense, to encompass all of the grocery shop graphics, only besides it allowed them to be collectors and to save the fiddling bits they plant to use for their art.

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best!

xo, Bar

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