{"id":1696,"date":"2017-01-03T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/how-to-host-the-ultimate-family-vision-board-party-a-step-by-step-guide\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:21:49","slug":"how-to-host-the-ultimate-family-vision-board-party-a-step-by-step-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/how-to-host-the-ultimate-family-vision-board-party-a-step-by-step-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Host the Ultimate Family Vision Board Party: A Step by Step Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

I enjoy hearing what my kids want to do and be when they grow up. \u00a0<\/strong>It changes almost daily, so much of that enjoyment comes from the entertaining changes to their life plans. I decided that today’s activity was going to be a vision board party. \u00a0They would create their own vision boards that reflected their goals for the year. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say that all three of them were excited at the vision board party idea right off the bat, but Li\u2019l Bit was all in.<\/strong> I put a pot of tea on, and she helped me gather all of our supplies.\u00a0I have included affiliate links<\/a>\u00a0in this post so that you can click to get more information about and buy what we used.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t sure that they would use all of this stuff, but I wanted to make sure that once they got started, they wouldn’t have to stop to look for supplies.<\/p>\n

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I had been collecting interesting duct tape for a while, so I took it out for them to use. \u00a0Usually, it is hands off my craft supplies for them, so they felt very special.<\/p>\n

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I’m not a magazine person, but I realized that I had more interesting stuff than I thought. \u00a0Li’l Bit even found a picture of Misty Copeland<\/a>. \u00a0I thought she’d stick that in the middle of the poster board and call it a day, but she continued working. \u00a0I was kinda surprised… that’s pretty much her whole plan… to be like Misty Copeland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We used tempera paint<\/a> because it dries very quickly… and because we have a LOT of it around.<\/p>\n

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Glitter<\/a>. We couldn’t do this without glitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They couldn’t find all one million of their paint brushes<\/a>, so I told them that they could use mine. \u00a0They really caught me in a great mood.<\/p>\n

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One of my Li’l Bit’s goals was to “learn more about my Caribbean American heritage.” I got the eye sweats when I read that. I can’t even lie.<\/p>\n

They wrote down their goals for the year and mapped out their boards over tea<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 They read their goals out loud to each other, so that they would be able to help each other when it was time to cut out pictures, words, and phrases from the magazines.<\/p>\n

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It was very interesting to see how the kids envisioned themselves in the near future.<\/p>\n

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My middle kid has such an attention to detail. \u00a0He wanted each piece cut perfectly along the edges of the image.<\/p>\n

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“I only want her outfit, so take the picture of me cutting it here. Something about cutting her head off seems creepy.” Good call Li’l Bit.<\/p>\n

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The kids claimed they didn’t have all the pictures that they needed, despite having quite a pile of magazines, so we used the printer<\/a> to print out photos from my cell phone. \u00a0This was one I took at the Botanical Gardens that Li’l Bit really liked.<\/p>\n

The oldest asked, \u201cdo guys even do vision boards?\u201d I answered, \u201cdo guys plan for their future?\u201d<\/strong> He shrugged and returned to flipping through the magazines.\u00a0 I\u2019ll take that as a yes.\u00a0 Mr. Social just wanted to find one of his car brochures that he didn\u2019t mind cutting up. That was the hardest part for him.<\/p>\n

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They were most excited about going on Facebook, Instagram, and on my phone, to look for photos to print out on the HP Sprocket Portable photo printer<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 It has sticky backed photo sheets to make adding them to the vision board easy.<\/p>\n

Once it was time to start attaching everything to the poster board, we started the party and broke out the sparkling cider.<\/strong> The kids cranked up the streaming music app, and it was on.<\/p>\n

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The oldest focused on words. \u00a0Not too many photos. \u00a0The centerpiece was his favorite recent photo of himself. \u00a0I am guessing he wants to do more of his signature “smolder” in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Social was focused on cars and food as usual. He added tech because he has discovered that he can be much more social through text messaging, instant messaging, and email.<\/p>\n

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Li’l Bit didn’t want anything to be in straight lines if she could help it. The more glitter<\/a> and colors… the better.<\/p>\n

Do you want to host your own vision board party for your family?<\/strong> Check out these ten steps to get your own party started. I have included affiliate links<\/a> so that you can click to get more information about and buy what we used.<\/p>\n

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  1. Gather materials.\n