The March Slice of Life Story Challenge
hosted by Two Writing Teachers
Ruth Ayres has a link-up on Saturdays where people link to posts that are celebrations about their week. I love this reminder to celebrate every week.
One nice celebration is rediscovering coloring. Here's that Slice. Thursday evening I was coloring at family night and when I went home I dug out a coloring book and continued. Friday evening, I finished a picture in the coloring book then also created a picture of my own based on an activity found in Picture This by Lynda Barry. This was a book I saw when I visited The Bubbler makerspace in Madison a few weeks ago. It has great suggestions for creative activities. After I finished coloring, I started working on collage. Barry encourages us to create a page of blue. Oprah magazines have the best colors and textures. Whenever they're on sale at the library, I grab them for collage. While looking for blue to put on my page, there were circles that were calling to me, so I cut them out too. I listened to a book on tape while cutting. In Picture This, readers are encouraged to draw and create while watching t.v., but a book sounded better.
One nice celebration is rediscovering coloring. Here's that Slice. Thursday evening I was coloring at family night and when I went home I dug out a coloring book and continued. Friday evening, I finished a picture in the coloring book then also created a picture of my own based on an activity found in Picture This by Lynda Barry. This was a book I saw when I visited The Bubbler makerspace in Madison a few weeks ago. It has great suggestions for creative activities. After I finished coloring, I started working on collage. Barry encourages us to create a page of blue. Oprah magazines have the best colors and textures. Whenever they're on sale at the library, I grab them for collage. While looking for blue to put on my page, there were circles that were calling to me, so I cut them out too. I listened to a book on tape while cutting. In Picture This, readers are encouraged to draw and create while watching t.v., but a book sounded better.
This morning was for moving things around and gluing them. It's funny that one family event with coloring got me going on this. The book is helping too of course. Creating makes me happy.
Another celebration is getting fun makerspace things for my library. Our Sphero (robotic ball) arrived this week along with squishy circuits and a Raspberry Pi. These are going to be cause for some exciting learning happening in our library.
I was able to tour our construction area again and see the changes. It's fantastic to see how our new learning space is taking shape.
Finally, the Slice of Life March event has been a great time of contemplation and writing. I'm so glad to be a part of it.
Today is International Day of Happiness. I hope your is a day filled with smiles and joy.
See--coloring did make you creative! You are right about SOL being full of contemplation and writing. I always appreciate the heightened awareness of March with the writing.
ReplyDeleteSee--coloring did make you creative! You are right about SOL being full of contemplation and writing. I always appreciate the heightened awareness of March with the writing.
ReplyDeleteColoring and cutting paper dolls always relaxed me and made me happy. Thank you fof a post that inspires a beloved form of creativity.
ReplyDelete"Creating makes me happy." Me, too. It was enjoyable to see you follow through and continue creating in different ways.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing all the creativity and color you've incorporated in your world recently. Isn't it funny how one experience can ripple through your world? Those vibrant photos nicely augmented your piece. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteCelebrating creativity in your life and for the library space, sounds like a perfect celebration.
ReplyDeleteI am intrigued by the sound of all that great stuff for a makerspace. I will have to look up The Bubbler makerspace next time I am in Madison. Your collages are very nice. It feels so great to create something beautiful. I agree that an audiobook sounds better than television for background noise while creating. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI am intrigued by the sound of all that great stuff for a makerspace. I will have to look up The Bubbler makerspace next time I am in Madison. Your collages are very nice. It feels so great to create something beautiful. I agree that an audiobook sounds better than television for background noise while creating. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteSo awesome for the makerspace! I would love to have one of those in our library. squishy circuits and spheros are a blast. Raspberry Pi is one I haven't worked with, so of course I will be googling that now!
ReplyDeleteInternational Day of Happiness? How very lovely! Love the colours!
ReplyDeleteOh I love to color and do collage--looks like you had great fun. Love the buttons and eyes and pops of color. Creating makes me happy too.
ReplyDeleteMy students love doing this kind of art, Crystal. I gave them a choice of a doodle with color or something with circles one week. They created the most amazing pictures with circles, all kinds of things. I love your 'blue' page, and thanks for the idea about Oprah's mags.
ReplyDeleteCrystal, your post is full of happiness so thanks for letting me know that it is International Day of Happiness. Coloring sounds like a soothing activity. I recall that I won a coloring contest when I was 4 years old so scrapbooking and coloring sound like fun activities.
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