Visualization Board
Material needed
1 carton board (any size and color)
Glue
Scissors
Magazines (as much as you can find)
Any embellishment you want to add is welcomed.
Material needed
1 carton board (any size and color)
Glue
Scissors
Magazines (as much as you can find)
Any embellishment you want to add is welcomed.
Objective
It’s a creative and fun way to help the kid identify what he expects from life; how he expects his life to be in the long term.
Creating a visualization board
After reading “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, I had decided to make a visualization board. As going around the room, looking for magazines and all I would used in this task, I glanced at my son going crazy about his boredom. “Mommy, I’m tired with the vacations” it’s all I’ve been hearing all week.
“Would you like to do some craft with mommy?” I asked him.
“What kind of craft?”
“A visualization board”
“What????”
I smiled at him and told him it would be fun.
“All you have to do is find pictures of things you want”
“Why?”
“Well, it will be like writing a letter to Santa Claus”
“And I will have them for Christmas?”
“Not exactly, honey… some of them probably...” I wasn’t sure how to explain the concept of this board to my six years old.
“When then?”
“Let’s put it this way… If you don’t know what you want, you can’t have them. By identifying the things you want, you are giving all surrounding you hints about your desires and it will be easier for you to acquire these things”
I wasn’t sure he would understand. But he answered
“Cool, I want to do one.”
I thought to myself “Am I not getting in trouble with that thing? He might be thinking it’s indeed a letter to Santa Claus!” But it was the only way I had thought of at the time to concretize the universe concept to him. Lol…
So we started looking for pictures…Of course my son’s first quest was to find toys and games images. “Oh shlouuuts, it looked more a list to mommy and daddy Claus!!!” DS, PSP, NITENDO Wii… and the list was growing longer and higher on the budget… lol… “Mommy, I want a dog”
“Then look for an image of dog”
After the toys and games, he was launching his vision of an ideal family with pets and all. At this point, my two nephews arrived and seeing all the material on the floor, they asked:
“What are you doing?”
“Mommy and I are doing a cool project. You have to look for pictures of things you want and some day you will have them.”
“How is that” the older one asked skeptically.
“She can’t tell you if it’s tomorrow or next month, but she says you will get what you want as long as you know what you want.”
I was amazed. He had found the right and simple way to explain the concept to his cousins and they all agreed this was something they sure wanted to do.
Creating these boards with the kids was a refreshing and amazing experience. I brought them to comment their choices, and other than toys and games, theirs boards were getting filled with pictures of houses, inspiring words such as “good education”, “love”, “friendship”, “creativity”… One of them explained an image of two old people walking together, hand in hand, as “happiness”… My son, not only wanted to illustrated thing he wanted for him, but also for his brother and sister, for mommy and daddy… And I almost cried when he told me he was looking for a baby’s picture and that I should do the same. He wanted a baby sister since his had died a few months ago.
Now I can tell you his board is hung somewhere he can see it every day and he often talks about it. My objective was met, I had taught them all it was important to know what they expected, what they wanted in order for things to come their way.
I’m sure you will always enjoy this experience as it will help you realize what your kid really has inside of him, what he really thinks about…
Enjoy it…
It’s a creative and fun way to help the kid identify what he expects from life; how he expects his life to be in the long term.
Creating a visualization board
After reading “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, I had decided to make a visualization board. As going around the room, looking for magazines and all I would used in this task, I glanced at my son going crazy about his boredom. “Mommy, I’m tired with the vacations” it’s all I’ve been hearing all week.
“Would you like to do some craft with mommy?” I asked him.
“What kind of craft?”
“A visualization board”
“What????”
I smiled at him and told him it would be fun.
“All you have to do is find pictures of things you want”
“Why?”
“Well, it will be like writing a letter to Santa Claus”
“And I will have them for Christmas?”
“Not exactly, honey… some of them probably...” I wasn’t sure how to explain the concept of this board to my six years old.
“When then?”
“Let’s put it this way… If you don’t know what you want, you can’t have them. By identifying the things you want, you are giving all surrounding you hints about your desires and it will be easier for you to acquire these things”
I wasn’t sure he would understand. But he answered
“Cool, I want to do one.”
I thought to myself “Am I not getting in trouble with that thing? He might be thinking it’s indeed a letter to Santa Claus!” But it was the only way I had thought of at the time to concretize the universe concept to him. Lol…
So we started looking for pictures…Of course my son’s first quest was to find toys and games images. “Oh shlouuuts, it looked more a list to mommy and daddy Claus!!!” DS, PSP, NITENDO Wii… and the list was growing longer and higher on the budget… lol… “Mommy, I want a dog”
“Then look for an image of dog”
After the toys and games, he was launching his vision of an ideal family with pets and all. At this point, my two nephews arrived and seeing all the material on the floor, they asked:
“What are you doing?”
“Mommy and I are doing a cool project. You have to look for pictures of things you want and some day you will have them.”
“How is that” the older one asked skeptically.
“She can’t tell you if it’s tomorrow or next month, but she says you will get what you want as long as you know what you want.”
I was amazed. He had found the right and simple way to explain the concept to his cousins and they all agreed this was something they sure wanted to do.
Creating these boards with the kids was a refreshing and amazing experience. I brought them to comment their choices, and other than toys and games, theirs boards were getting filled with pictures of houses, inspiring words such as “good education”, “love”, “friendship”, “creativity”… One of them explained an image of two old people walking together, hand in hand, as “happiness”… My son, not only wanted to illustrated thing he wanted for him, but also for his brother and sister, for mommy and daddy… And I almost cried when he told me he was looking for a baby’s picture and that I should do the same. He wanted a baby sister since his had died a few months ago.
Now I can tell you his board is hung somewhere he can see it every day and he often talks about it. My objective was met, I had taught them all it was important to know what they expected, what they wanted in order for things to come their way.
I’m sure you will always enjoy this experience as it will help you realize what your kid really has inside of him, what he really thinks about…
Enjoy it…
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