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The Creative Family Manifesto
Encouraging Imagination and Nurturing Family Connections
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Embrace family life with creativity at its heart. The Creative Family Manifesto is a guide to using the simple tools around you—your imagination, basic art supplies, household objects, and natural materials—to relax, play, and grow together as a family. When you learn to awaken your family’s creativity, wonderful things will happen: you’ll make meaningful connections with your children, your children’s imaginations will flourish, and you’ll learn to express love and gratitude for each other. This book is just what you need to get started.
Amanda Soule has charmed many with her tales of creativity and parenting on her blog, SouleMama. Here she shares ideas and projects with the same warm tone and down-to-earth voice. Perfect for all families, the wide range of projects presented here offers ideas for imaginative play, art and crafts, nature explorations, and family celebrations.
Released on its ten-year anniversary, this revised and updated edition of The Creative Family, carries on Amanda Soule’s thoughtful perspectives on parenting.
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780834841079
- File size: 5049 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780834841079
- File size: 5050 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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January 1, 2018
Music, baking, knitting, piano, chess, painting, and sewing are just a few of the skills the Soule family weaves into the warp and weft of their daily life. In 2005, the author started the blog SouleMama.com, describing the adventures of raising three small children in a coastal community while thoughtfully attempting to craft an imaginative life. The goal was not to raise the next Mozart or Picasso but to help children gain the tools of "curiosity, problem solving, compassion, and joy." According to Soule, creativity gives one power "to craft a life of your choosing or to make better the world directly in the hands of our young people." She focuses on four elements of the creative family: self (it is necessary to nurture your own passions while raising children), child (creating comes naturally to children), family (bonds are formed as we work together), and community (we can connect to others through our talents). A variety of projects both whimsical and simple include using everyday items from nature or the pantry to produce art, embellishing clothing, designing on-the-go art bags, planning a garden, and building a fairy house. VERDICT A delightful book for all readers with an artistic bent.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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