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Vision Boards and Arts: Library Contests for National Book Week and Library Week

vision board collage

Looking for a fun project for your library users on National Book Week and Library Week? Here's a solution: Vision Boards!

Vision boards are art projects that can be worked on by anyone, not just artists or those who have been doing art for a long time. There's no exact science to putting things together to make a creative concept, although some logical concepts can be applied. 

Even if all you have are piles of old magazines and kraft paper, you can do a lot to make art by using these artworks.

Here are some of the frequently asked questions about Vision Boards!

1. Is it a collage? 

A vision board is like a collage in that the items pasted on one surface can be sourced from various materials, like old magazines, newspapers, brochures, and books. However, most collages have a specific theme, usually an event or an advocacy, whereas a vision board is all about motivation and having a goal in mind while collecting related materials to put together, collage-like. 

2. Is it decoupage?

Decoupage is similar to a collage in that you also place verious materials on a flat surface. However, with decoupaging, the end goal is to make the materials cohesive so that they look like one design, whereas a collage or a vision board makes sure that each individual item you placed can be highlighted for its meaning and unique contribution to the whole. With decoupage, a varnish of some sort is applied over the final design. 

3. What size is ideal for a vision board?

A vision board can be as small as a notebook page and as big as a mural. If all you have are tiny magazine clippings of quotes and meaningful words that motivate you and speak of your final goal, then you can use a piece of kraft paper, coupon bond, or a notebook page. Scrapbooks can be used as vision boards because they have the ideal flat surface, you can draw on them, and the page is made of pasting items. 

So, what are the materials you as the librarian, teacher, or parent should prepare for when encouraging your uses to create a vision board?

  • A board - cardboard, spread-out folder, coupon bond, sketchpad page
  • old magazines - for cutting out letters, words, phrases, and even whole paragraphs of text and photos for the concept.
  • Sticky glue or paste - for sticking those cut-outs 
  • Scissors - t cut paper
  • a blank wall - to display the vision boards 


  



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