Idea No. 169: Don’t Take Out Student Loans
the idea: don’t take out student loans If only this idea occurred to me six years ago. (nothing dries up ideas like looking at a insurmountable pile of money you owe)
Idea No. 168: Hieroglyphic Necklace
the idea: have kids write their name using hieroglyphs on thick black paper with white pencil, cut out, whole punch, and put on a string with beads to make into a necklace This art lesson is actually a modification of one that I did in second grade. For that class we met multiple times, rather than …
Idea No. 167: Creativity and Art to Life
the idea: put together an event for artists to showcase their work and performers to get up on stage ideator: from the Blue Hill BGCB As tends to happen in the community art world, I was told about the Creativity and Art to Life (I think I’m getting the title right…) event yesterday and ended up …
Idea No. 166: Spend the Longest Day of the Year at the Beach
the idea: spend the longest day of the year at the beach reading incredible books For some people, this may not be a brand new concept, but for me it was truly revolutionary. There are a couple reasons. 1.) I am not good at relaxing. I have so many ideas and they make me so happy …
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Idea No. 165: What We Tell Our Kids
the idea: start a blog where people can share what they tell their kids to explain strange/bad/adult things Although I’m not a parent, I am a teacher and have some idea of the strange things that adults come up with to explain adult-concepts or life-truths to children. For example, I used to get disgusting amounts of …
Idea No. 164: It All Connects to Hogwarts
the idea: connect something back to a good fiction world If you’ve ever submerged yourself in a fictional world, you know that it can connect to everything around you. That being said, I have to admit that I have spent more than my share of time hidden in Hogwarts. Today, while driving home, I saw …
Idea No. 163: Let Your Kids Play With Blocks
the idea: give kids simple toys that they can actually create something out of i.e. blocks, legos, clay, paint Now that my brain has finally had a bit of a break, I am working my way through Tony Wagner’s book Creating Innovators: The making of young people who will change the world. It was when I was …
Idea No. 162: The Drawing that was 32% Done
the idea: make a drawing as big as you can, only to be told that it’s only 32% done You do strange things when you’re in school,especially when you’re in art school. Some of these things stay with you, some you forget about until, say, you’re helping your mother go through the basement. I only had …
Idea No. 161: “Fun” by Doug Hynes, c. 1965
the idea: define “Fun” in a picture book This book, written by my uncle presumably when he was in elementary school, surfaced today when my father and I were going through the basement. In it, he has a pile of stuff recovered from my grandmother’s house after she passed away in Hurricane Sandy. But, amid the …
Idea No. 160: Take a NAP
the idea: set aside some time to crash Today was supposed to be the beginning of me coming home to celebrate Father’s day, spend some time with my sister before she goes to Japan, and other family things. Instead it turned into a few games of Boggle, dinner, and then a nap. And by nap, I …