3 Ways to Prepare an Art Journal Page + Journal Prompts for Prepare
This week the journal prompt for Kids and their Grown Ups is: Prepare
For the Kids Art Journaling ideas we prepared a few pages in an Artterro Art Journal Kit – the sponsor for this Falls Art Journal fun. Scroll all the way to the bottom for the journal prompt questions!
You can find all of the {fill your cup} Journal Prompts right here!
We are three weeks into a six week Art Journal with Kids series and for this week I chose the word prepare, because I wanted to show my kids that we can begin a journal page and then come back to it later. We took a little time to prepare some pages which will be fun to continue creating on later.
3 Ways to Prepare an Art Journal Page with Kids:
Watercolor + Salt:
Paint a nice wet page of color. Sprinkle salt across the page and allow to dry. Shake off the salt and you have a background speckled where the salt crystals absorbed the paint.
Washi Tape:
Simply use Washi Tape (Amazon Link) to decorate or section off a page before you begin drawing or writing on it. Just one strip of the colorful tape on the paper edge can brighten a journal page.
Tracing circles:
Using a round object such as a tape roll, a canning jar ring or a cookie cutter, trace over-lapping circles on the page. These can later be colored in, written in or painted.
Journal Prompts
Read through these prompts and respond to which ever catches your eye – I tend to enjoy painting or drawing while simply pondering the questions, but you may wish to write or make a list.
- What do you need to prepare for right now?
- Do you ever spend too much time preparing and not enough time acting? How can you get yourself moving?
- We face certain frustrating situations over and over – think of something that’s coming up a lot for you lately. What is one way you can prepare for the next time this situation occurs?
- How do you prepare your children for independence? Is there something new you need to start teaching them or allow them to do for themselves?
This Fall the {fill your cup} journal prompts are sponsored by Artterro. These wonderful art journal kits are a great way for you and your kids to try out Art journaling. Why not use the weekly {fill your cup} prompt in an art journal?

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this is the first i have heard of this Art Journalling for Children. I know my youngest would benefit greatly..we both would! My teen already uses her own sketchbooks in the form of journalling since she was very young. I just never thought of it for my second child. This is very interesting to me. I am happy to have found your site, subscribed and going out to buy our new sketchbook/journals tomorrow!!! Thank you!!!