Monday 24 December 2007

TASK: Nature's art from a child's heart


We are told Christmas is a time for so many things -

for forgiveness, for laughter, for peace ever after.

It is a time for eating, drinking and being merry.

And it is a time for family
...and especially for children.


And in this mad world that never stops long enough for us to get off and pause for breath, we rarely get a chance to spend enough time with our children (or other people's) to remember what the world looks like through the child's eyes.


So this Christmas task is to see the world through the eyes of a child and make a picture out of it. For this task you will need nothing more than a handful of youngsters if you can find them, one if that is all there happens to be around, and a bit of the beautiful and bountiful outdoors.


Take said child(ren) into the wonderous natural world - a beach, a park, a wood, anywhere you can get messy and find a supply of suitable raw materials - where the imagination can work its magic... and create a picture.


You may wish to start by collecting enough sticks to make a picture frame. You may wish to frame your work of art in another way, or perhaps it doesn't require a frame at all.


Let the children and the child in you be the guides - don't try to impose an adult view of the world and of what art should be - an adult's view is never as interesting, creative or magical as a child's.


Then take a photo of your picture and post it here...


Merry Christmas everybody, or as they say round these parts where I am indulging in the festivities - Nadolig Llawen (with a bit of God Jul and Buon Natale thrown in for good measure!!).

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