![]() ![]() Melissa’s Note: Isn’t this amazing? Barney, thank you so much for giving the world this book, and for guest blogging on Imagination Soup. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two dogs, and a pond full of fish. Additionally, he’s recorded four albums of songs for children. It’s also a good reminder to play! (Something we forget about doing in this busy life of ours!)īio: Barney Saltzberg is the author of more than 30 books for children, including Good Egg and the bestselling Touch and Feel Kisses series, with over 800,000 copies in print. It’s really an important skill for kids to learn because it helps them deal with the frustration of not being able to make (draw, paint, cut) what they want. All of this takes some finessing on the part of the adult.Ī wonderful bi-product of taking the sting out of an oops, is a bitof a life lesson - anything can be fixed if you don’t give up. Wow, what can I do with that drip or that thumb print? It’s taking that moment and looking beyond at the possibilities. Keep in mind, a true ‘oops’ is helping a kid see something clever or of satisfaction when what they were doing isn’t what they had in mind. Once it dries, dress it up as you see fit. This can get kind of messy, so you can put some paint on a piece of paper and smash it onto another piece of paper. I used acrylic paint, which dries really quickly for the smudges and smears.The same goes for newspaper ripping, just randomly rip it and turn it around and around until something appears.I’ve torn paper and played with the shape. ![]() There is no wrong answer when it comes to art. Take other colors and have them color inside the squiggles. Put on some fun music and have the person move their arms around on the paper as if they are dancing to the music.Ĥ. Take a large piece of paper and give someone two crayons. It could be a face or a monster or a car or even a state. It doesn’t have to end up with arms and legs. It’s a neat opportunity for kids to see the shape as something else. If glue is too messy, a bit of paint can be blown with a straw and altered after it dries. I like tissue paper over glue too….you can layer it and get neat color combinations, then add arms and legs and a head.Ĥ. Give it a face when it dries or put arms and legs on it and add a head with a soft fabric pom-pom (also found in bags at a craft store.)ģ. Use bags of confetti with foil paper or regular tissue paper to put on the glue. Take some white glue and to pour it on to a piece of cardboard or a paper or plastic plate and let the glue just ooze where it wants to.Ģ. Oops Simulated Ideas: (not the result of an actual oops but still creative) from my sister, a former kindergarten teacher.ġ. Honestly, an ‘oops’ is in the ‘moment’…It’s a creative solution to a happening. That was the beginning of Beautiful Oops. I decided it looked like an alligator’s mouth. ![]() One day, I was sitting in my studio and tore a piece of paper in half. Teachers requested that I write a book, teaching that concept. Rather than starting over, I painted clouds over each paw print. A dog climbed up on to my desk and walked across the paper, leaving paw prints that I couldn’t erase. The other is from an old book of mine, The Flying Garbanzos. I spilled coffee on it and decided the shape looked like a monster. Two of the images I show how I turned mistakes into artwork. Guest post written by author and illustrator, Barney Saltzberg whose newest book is Beautiful Oops.īeautiful Oops was inspired by teachers to whom I’ve show how I write and illustrate picture books.
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