How to Create a Vision Board With Kids

A vision board is also sometimes called a Treasure Map or a Creativity Collage. Usually made on a poster board you fill it with pictures taken from magazines and other sources. The pictures on the vision board should reflect your life goals; who you want to become, where you want to live and what you want to have in your life. This is a great activity to do with kids.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Poster board
• Magazines
• Scissors
• Rubber cement
• Markers
• Instamatic camera

1. Discuss the idea behind a vision with the kids. Talk about what goals are and some examples of pictures that might belong on a vision board.

2. Play soft music quietly in the background to help the kids relax for the activity.

3. Put out a stack of magazines in an assortment of different topics for the kids to look through and cut pictures out of for their vision board. Each kid will also need a pair of scissors.

4. Glue the pictures onto the board using rubber cement. Do not use a white school glue as that will cause the pictures to ripple from the wet glue and they will not dry flat. Have each child leave a blank space in the middle of their vision board large enough to hold a photograph. They can add words to their board using markers if they wish.

5. Take a picture of each of the children.

6. Have each kid paste the picture of himself in the center of his vision board. This is an optional part of a vision board but it makes a strong impact on the project.

7. Hang the vision board in a place that it will be seen daily as a reminder of goals of dreams.