Earlier this month one of the bloggers I follow wrote about making ATC (Artist Trading Cards) with her children and swapping their creations with another friends children. What sponed from this little weekend activity, was an Artist Trading Card swap for kids ages 5-12, that 900 kids from all over the world signed up to participate. The kids were divided up in groups of six, paired with five other kids their age. Rules were emailed out, and a deadline was set (2/28). We got special heavy duty artist paper from the craft store, cut it down to the correct size - 2.5" x 3.5", collected all the necessary art supplies from around the house, did research on what artist trading cards look like, did lots of practicing and lots of creating!
The kids worked on them here and there for a full week, spending most of the past two Fridays, when they were home from school, working on their masterpieces. They had a really good time, came up with their own subject matter and titles and we even made small envelopes using some of Rebecca's scrapbook paper to hold their cards. I am so pleased with each child's creativity and their willingness to participate in this experience. They did a great job experimenting with different mediums and trying to do their very best work.
All of Emily's are going to the US, Rebecca has one going to the United Kingdom, and Sam is sending two overseas ... one to Australia and one to Dubai!
ETA: Their swap mates ATCs started arriving this week. Rebecca has already emailed one of her swapmates and has a letter drafted to another. It looks like she's going to get a few pen pals from the experience.
Once all the cards are in, my plan is to create a collage frame of all six ATCs (one from each of their swapmates and one of their own) to hang in their room.
The kids worked on them here and there for a full week, spending most of the past two Fridays, when they were home from school, working on their masterpieces. They had a really good time, came up with their own subject matter and titles and we even made small envelopes using some of Rebecca's scrapbook paper to hold their cards. I am so pleased with each child's creativity and their willingness to participate in this experience. They did a great job experimenting with different mediums and trying to do their very best work.
All of Emily's are going to the US, Rebecca has one going to the United Kingdom, and Sam is sending two overseas ... one to Australia and one to Dubai!
ETA: Their swap mates ATCs started arriving this week. Rebecca has already emailed one of her swapmates and has a letter drafted to another. It looks like she's going to get a few pen pals from the experience.
Once all the cards are in, my plan is to create a collage frame of all six ATCs (one from each of their swapmates and one of their own) to hang in their room.
3 comments:
This is wonderful! A friend of ours in Beirut was very into ATC, but I didn't know that they had a children's version. I'm going to get my kids in on the next one.
You did it too huh? So fun! I am glad you mentioned doing a collage. I have been trying to figure out what to do with Seths - I will do a collage with them. Great idea!
I love seeing what other kids did. So fun!
What a great experience!
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