Sit down with your children (whether they are your own kids
or your students) and read the instructions to them. Help them through these
projects and three fantastic things will happen.
1. They will become talented in art.
2. They will learn to describe the world with a practical vocabulary and,
3. You will have shared some of the highest quality time you have ever had with
them. Find the balance between assertiveness and playfulness that will cause them
to stick with each project until it is finished. It is that balance of responsibility
and relationship, which will bring out the citizenship skills that launch children
into the safely limitless.