  |
|||
|
|
|
||
|
Posted by Elece Hollis Jun 3, 2008 |
Hello Friends,
I hope you are enjoying the first few days of summer. If you should be going to the ocean this summer or spending anytime on the beach if even near a lake or stream, you might encourage your child to create a treasure box to remember his summer with. He can collect, clean, sort and glue small seashells to a wooden box and shellac it to keep as a reminer of the fun he had.
If you are staying at home, or far from any beaches, the child can still use shells from a hobby store and make a box. Studying the shells and about the ocean with its sand shores and tides is a good summertime educational project.
The box pictured with the article, Make a Seashell Treasure Box, was made by a small girl. She didn't like my directions and used her own eye for art to decorate her box her own way. Hey, that's what it is all about, right? Creativity and individualism?
If we as parents and teachers take over craft and art projects and demand they are done in the prescribed way we are liable to squelch a child's creative spirit. So use the project idea and allow the child leeway to decorate his box in the way most beautiful to him.
~Elece