Drawing Journal

Creating a drawing journal with your child is a great way to reflect together on experiences from the day and talk about feelings. If you keep adding to it over a long period of time, it also makes a lovely book to keep and is a fascinating diary of drawing technique evolution as the child grows.

All you need is a notebook with blank pages and a variety of pens, crayons, pencils etc to choose from.



The idea is that the child gets a double page in the notebook for each day (or once a week, or once a month or whatever frequency they want to do it). They can draw a picture about something memorable from their day. For example, they might draw something interesting they saw in the garden, the park or a picture of a person. Don't give them guidance about what to draw - let them choose anything they want to. Sometimes they might just want to draw a big scribble!





Talk about what they have chosen to draw and have fun remembering stories from the day. It's also a good way to talk about feelings. You could write captions in so that you can remember at a later date what the drawings are about.



You could also collect tickets or leaflets from a day out and stick them into the book like a scrapbook.





Write the date at the top of the page. It's also a good way to talk about about days, months and dates.



For more fun creative ideas to do with your children, check out MyKidCraft .

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