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Posted: July 12 2012 at 2:59pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
We went to a summer program at the museum today, and they looked at the sketches and paintings that artists did as they visited specific places. They even had some sketch books and journals on display for this special summer exhibit (which included a lot of art done whileon summer holiday). Anyway, the project for the children was a sketchbook. They decorated the cover. They had intended to take the children outside (the museum is located on a nature preserve) to sketch a scene, but the museum was too busy with a free admission day (and free cake) because it is Andrew Wyeth's birthday today.

All that to say, I liked the sketchbooks. I asked where they were from, and she orded them from Dick Blick here They are small and paper bound ith staples but seem well made.

We've not been able to get solid in our nature journaling, but it is a goal this year. You have to buy these in multiples of 20 ($27) but part of the appeal to me was that the thickness is small and it could be filled somewhat quickly (32 pages, I think). I was also think that you could keep separate journals for separate things. For instance, we could have one reserved for some of the specific places we go or topics we study, but all could be kept in the same art or nature study bag, perhaps in a poly envelope for rigidity.

Just mulling over ideas. My perfectionist tendencies can get in the way of my journaling implementation, and these small books seem that they would make good "practice" journals since it isn't the one nice big fancy journal to mess up, and you get that sense of completion quickly as well as the ability to start anew and experiment on a small scale with a big capital investment.

Before I was aware of the source, I had looked at Waldorfsupplies.com because they reminded me of their lesson books. However, the Waldorf store didn't offer anything smaller than 8x10. BUT they offered them with alternating pages of lined and plain paper. This seems ideal (I believe this is how many PNEU schools did it), except, I'd like something smaller to manage on nature walks.

Then, there is my standby routine of clipboards and we can mount them in a notebook later, but later rarely comes for us, but maybe I should focus on organizing that idea better?

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