Ways to be Creative: 25/51 Make a Book Spine Poem

Book spine poems are very popular at the moment.  I first came across the idea on Brain Pickings.  This one on the meaning of life is my favourite. 

I found it surprisingly hard to make my own book spine poem.  Perhaps I’m not flexible enough because one book title would give me an idea and then I couldn’t find titles to express the rest of my thoughts about that idea.  Perhaps my book collection is too small, most of my books are digital these days.

Then & Now: April 2009 & April 2013

Then

51 Ways to be Creative

1. write a list of 50 ways to use {object/item of your choice}
2. find a quote or piece of poetry and art journal it
3. illustrate a recipe

Invitation to Create: Finger Knitting

Finger knitting was my final invitation to play during our week of school holidays.  Strictly speaking, I’m not sure it was an “invitation to play”.  I didn’t put out materials and wait to see what happens, like you would usually do when creating an invitation to play.  I used another technique to get my children interested – I sat down and started a project myself.

Invitation to Create: Magic Wands

Our 4th invitation to play this week was this invitation to make magic wands, inspired by Playful Learning, with sticks we had collected.  We used paint, ribbon, tinsel and decorative tape to decorate the wands.