Book About Me - PCCI Literacy Day

As part of PCCI’s Newark Reads! Festival, I facilitated a book arts workshop for K-5 students, integrating literacy with art. For the workshop, students were asked to create an artist book using the flag book technique developed by book artist, Hedi Kyle. Each page or “flag” in the book was created using words and images to answer a different question about the student artist.

Answers to questions, such as “What is your favorite thing to do with your family?” or “If you could fly, where would you go?” revealed a little bit about the students. Once constructed, these pages contributed to a finished story about the student artist.

Supplies

* Thick white drawing paper (pre-cut into long pieces and folded into accordian fold)

* Markers, colored pencils, crayons

* Assorted colored paper + decorative paper

* Glue

* Printed questions