Do you have big plans for your family for the New Year? A Vacation to Walt Disney World? Plan to spend more quality time together? Plan on making a big purchase? Planning to plant a vegetable garden to learn about science and to lower your grocery budget? Keep a cleaner home? Improve behavior of the children?
What is a Vision Board?
A vision board (also called a Treasure Map or a Visual Explorer or Creativity Collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve torn out from various magazines. It’s simple.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.( http://christinekane.com/blog/how-to-make-a-vision-board/)
Why Create a Vision Board for the family?
- Help dreams to come true
- Understand your children feelings.
- Spend quality time
- Have fun with your family
- Create goals
- Work on problems
- Discover problems or concerns your children may have. Maybe a parent works to much, A sibling is not nice, you have never taken a family vacation and etc.
According to the Better Parenting Institue, here are some top reasons to make a family vision board:
Top 5 Tips of the Week:
1. Encourage your kids to hold onto their dreams
2. Create dream boards to help your kids turn their dreams into reality
3. Make a family dream board; everyone helps to create a family vision
4. Use affirmations to reinforce positive beliefs
5. Show your kids you love them…through your words and your actions
You will need:
- A poster board paper. Cardstock, recycle the side of a cardboard box
- Glue
- Scissors. Child Safe scissors for the children.
- Pictures of what you are dreaming of. You may use magazines, newspapers and even the computer and printer to find the images that you may have in mind.
A frame, thumb tacks, magnets to create a fridge magnet. Choose the materials that you will need to hand your vision board.
Creating your Vision Board:
- Talk about the dreams, goals and changes that you would like to make for your family this year. Find the top items that your family agrees on.
- Cut out pictures and words that will represent your dreams, goals and expected outcomes and achievements of the new year.
- Glue your pictures of your dreams and goals onto the base of your visual board. This may be your cardboard box, cardstock or poster board.
Add words and affirmations to your visual board! The Free Dictionary states:
1. The act of affirming or the state of being affirmed; assertion.
2. Something declared to be true; a positive statement or judgment.
3. Law A solemn declaration given in place of a sworn statement by a person who conscientiously objects to taking an oath.
- Make it fun!
- Make it full of color!
When the project is completed:
Hang your Family New Year Visual board in a place where the entire family can see the board. This will help the family to visualize the things that you wish to have in the New Year. It will help to remind family members of your goals, dreams and changes that need to be incorporated into the family to achieve the goals set for the new year.
You may find an example of how to create a vision board with the help of your children at Kidzworld.com!
For some visual inspiration, take a peek at this adorable vision board shared on the Saavy Blogging Blog!
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