The Power of Idea!
If you are reading this, hello fellow ga-venter! This is my
second post about the power of being creative and having ideas. The Garage
Creative has been set up to help encourage my children’s creative outlets. I
started talking with them about it Friday morning as I asked one of them to
draw a picture for our Facebook page. This proved to be very valuable for a
number of reasons.
First and foremost, it was a great drawing and very well
represents what I would like The Garage Creative to be. Secondly, I told her it
was going to be our Cover Photo on Facebook. This blew her away! She was so
excited for me to post it for her and the world to see on the computer! This
gave me an idea.
I am setting up a gallery on The Garage Creative to share,
post, and view others wonderful creations. If you would like for me to post
them, please email them to thegaragecreative@gmail.com
or post them on our Facebook page under ga-vention gallery. The more I get, the
happier I will be so please SHARE and COLLABORATE! Perhaps someday, I can get
some cool The Garage Creative swag with shirts and stickers and we can have
contests.
Another take away I was struck with happened after her
summer camp at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. We were walking to the
car and she showed me a great model she had made at the camp (see photo and if
you would like to know more about the activity, let me know). She was quizzing
me on the order of the planets and I told her my pneumonic device for
remembering them (my very eager mother just served us nachos. (Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune)). I told her we could find a
good place in her room to hang it up and she said, “Dada, we should put it in
The Garage Creative!”
DUH! Obviously I was thrilled to hear this. It reiterated to
me that by having her help guide the process of The Garage Creative her buy in
to the project is huge. She is invested and she will continue to guide her own
learning; all with the power of idea!
In Creative Solidarity,
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