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Value Your Work

© Jo Murphy

It will be great if kids can learn to value their work through these regular acrtivities. There is one sure way to encourage routine with kids! That is to show them how to make the descision to care before the exercises begin. By creating the process that makes this easy for them we have set the scene for them to carry it out! We empower them by our tone, and make our own job as guides much, much easier. So! Let's start off this whole series of articles by making the drawing folders that show the children how much we all care.

The first one will be called a

"Scrappy Ideas Journal."

Materials You Will Need.

• Enough paper so that it is not too thick to fold in half.
• A piece of strong coloured or black cardboard.
• A sturdy stapler.

I will be strongly encouraging the kids to have a scrappy journal. They can make this for themselves at home - when you are helping them why not make one for yourself? Most adults or older children who help the lil' ones with these activities fall in love with the exercises themselves, so why not take the time to enjoy along with the children. The Scrappy Journal is for 'scrappy ideas and brainstorming.'

How To Put It Together.

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• Be very careful to shuffle the paper so that the edges are firmly and neatly together.
• Fold corner to corner and slide your thumbs from the centre to the outer edges of the pages.
• When they are neatly folded in half, staple down in the centre.

That's all there is to it! You have made your book. Click to enlarge.

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Front Page - Naming and Dating.

First Name - Last Name and Class or Phone Number in case you lose the precious book and someone wants to return it. Please put the date on the right hand bottom side. This will help you to remember how well you could draw when you first began, and you should be able to trace your fantastic improvement! This will also help you remember how your themes have developed. Decorate the page if you want to, BUT Don't clutter up the front page!

What you are trying to do is make sure that any one finding it would know that it is yours. So print very neatly on the first page in big, big letters.