"I believe__________" (you finish the sentence)
Recently I was staying with a dancer friend of mine in Seattle, Julia. She is working on a collaborative story book with her daughter's class, her daughter is eight. My daughter is close to the same age and I have been thinking about doing a similar project at her school. Hearing about her book got me inspired again. Julia's idea is to retell the story of The Woman Who Swallowed A Fly (I don't know why she swallowed a fly...) Each child makes up their own verse and designs a larger, fancy capital letter to start the verse off with. Also, everyone creates an image in a specified size to go with the verse. She plans to altar an existing book or create a book and then arrange the pages with a verse and an image on each page. Her vision is for the book to be large and in the style of an old fashioned fairy tale book. Sounds like a fun project and I hope to keep you updated and post a photo of the finished book. Here are some photos of 'fun for all ages' collaborative book projects that I've organized in the past. I encourage you to create your own collaborative book project. Plan an art jam, take it to the classroom or collaborate with others from near and far through the mail! See my older posts from 2010 for more details, photos and instructions about collaborative book projects like:
October- Exquisite Corpse Collaborative Board Book (how to)
November- Art Jam Report "I believe_______"
December- Moonlight Madness Collaborative Book Project
Exquisite Corpse collaborative board book
collaborative alphabet book
