Kasper's preschool art book 1

Do you know the feeling that you’re always running way behind with everything. I do.

For example I have a whole pile of artwork from my son from in kindergarten which I intend to sort through and bind the most beautiful in a book and that per year.

Well, my son started 2 weeks ago his first year of elementary school (where has the time gone??), so I am hopelessly behind.

But in these moments of sudden panic I try to remember this quote I recently read in a magazine: You are not behind, you are just starting.

So with this mantra in the back of my head I got started.

Step 1: collect all art from kindergarten year 1, that was easy as I kept them in separate boxes, one for each year.

Step 2: select the works I want to keep and which ones can be thrown away, I did this together with my son so he could tell me which ones he really would like to keep and it also teaches him that you can’t keep everything.

Step 3: I glued pages together to make double sided pages

Step 4: punch holes in the pages with my Bind-it all

Step 5: aha, and now for the fun part, creating a front cover (I got the inspiration from Artangel)

I covered a piece of cardboard with crinkled tissue paper

Painted it with metallic paints and rubbed over the creases with some blue and green oil pastels.

In the middle I am going to glue down the letters of his name in gypsum which he decorated himself, around I wanted to create some kind of border.

Because this week is stencil week over at The Craft Barn I was playing around with stencils and another way of using them is laying them underneath a piece of paper or in my case a piece of tissuepaper and rubbing the pattern with a crayon.

I tore the leaves and glued them to the cover, followed by the letters for which I used my heatgun.

Bind it all together and tada finished.

One done, 2 more to go.