With so many of these Felt Flag Banners I been making, I have a lot of scraps. I'm not one to throw away something that might find a purpose later on. While brainstorming activities and crafts for Oliver, I remembered the scraps. We pulled out several colors in various shapes, a bottle of glue and an old manila envelope.
Oliver glued the felt pieces all over this envelope and created his first, of what I'm sure will become many, textured mosaics. My idea/ goal would be to design and package "make a mess Monday" kits. Using some of the projects Oliver and I have come up with and the scraps of materials I use in my own crafts, I could put together pretty cool little art kits.
Could you see the kits changing a young person's life? Introducing art in an easy, "all you need to get started is right there" kind of way, without photos of what it should look like when completed because that's up to each child's imagination. If you'd have asked me before having kids- I would not have thought art was all that important to teach young children. As you might have guessed, I have changed my mind. I see all kinds of positive benefits and impressions our "make a mess Monday" sessions have made on Oliver.
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