Book Arts for Children

  The spirit of creativity in children

I love teaching children visual storytelling with

the accordion book structure.

Accordion books ready for art and stories

Children enjoy folding and putting creases in the papers.

Some draw from left to right.  

Some right to left.  

Some start in the middle.  

It is their story and they tell it the way they want.

I give them pencils, crayons, water colors, and lots

of encouragement to create images and tales.

Children are natural storytellers. 

One easy lesson children enjoy 

is creating inkblot drawings.

inkblots created with watercolors

They put ink drops on one side of the paper,

fold down the other side,

rub the paper with the back of their hands,

open it and they have an image.

Some accordion books drying

Looks like the Rorschach test?

Ask a child what it is and the stories are amazing,
and sometimes, surprising!