When I came across the book Creative Lettering at Mothers Daughters Sisters, I knew C(10) and I would enjoy doodling with the fun fonts it contains.
I also love foreign languages, and dabble with them at every opportunity. So I was most over-excited when I had the idea for this Valentines-inspired art project: writing “love” in 18 different languages.
I put together the “love” translations in this document {free printable PDF} and made us each a copy. The languages include German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Greek, plus seven more.
Then we sat doodling together for a happy hour or so. We used Creative Lettering for font inspiration but if you don’t have the book you can find plenty of instant, free inspiration with a google image search for fun fonts.
As we wrote the different words, we commented on the similarities and differences between the different languages. We contrasted the word for “love” in the Romance languages (amor, amore, amour) with the Germanic words (Liebe, Liefde). We noticed how similar the Russian and Croatian words are. And how alike the Mandarin Chinese and Japanese characters are.
Once we had checked off all the languages, we doodled in the blank spaces.
Then, after C(10) had wandered off to compose a song, I carried on tinkering with our creations. I photocopied them onto pastel coloured paper and put eight together to make a poster which is now adorning one of our homeschool supply cupboards!
We had so much fun with this project. We might repeat it another time with other words – perhaps, “happy”, “spring”, or “joy”.
Do let me know if you try it!
I’m appreciatively linking up here:
After School Linky Party (2-10)
Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop
Showing Kids Love: Creative Ideas from All Things Kids
This is a really pretty! I love all the creative fonts and letterings. Thanks for sharing your project. 🙂
Thank you! We enjoyed doing this so much! And we were really pleased with how our creations turned out. 🙂
What a great idea! Elle has a Klutz creative font book she loves using – can’t wait to show her these! (Love that C wandered off to compose a song…)
Thank you! I know – I did chuckle when C went off to do her song straight after this (she’s learning how to use Garage Band). Good to continue the creative mood! I’d never thought about playing with fonts before. Well, not since I was a teenager. (Isn’t it great how we get to relive our childhoods with our kids?!)
So whimsical! Love how it turned out! Sounds like you had fun with it too!
What a lovely word, Dana – “whimsical”! Thank you 🙂
Lucinda,
Oh my! I love your doodles! They look even more wonderful printed on coloured paper. I would never have thought of doing that. I am so glad you are enjoying the book Creative Lettering. Now I feel inspired to try another project. Actually Sophie and I haven’t yet drawn our owls using the other doodle book I mentioned. We must do that soon! Thank you for the link to our blog!
Thank you so much, Sue. I am loving seeing your girls’ creative projects at your new blog. Sophie’s post especially was very inspiring, as you can tell!
I reached for the coloured paper on a whim, as I was scanning our creations, and was so pleased with how they looked when printed, I got rather carried away! I can’t think of many better ways to spend an afternoon, though! 🙂
I shall look forward to seeing your owls, if Sophie decides to share them.
What a fun idea! It turned out so lovely too!
Thank you, Cari! 🙂
Oh! I likey!!! I wonder if I could get that organised…
Thanks Ingi. I have to catch myself by surprise when we do this kind of thing. Not so good at the organisation thing!
I likey too!! Especially the collage poster!
Thank you, Claire. I do like to play!
Great idea! I love all the different fonts – very creative!
Thank you, Tonia! I must admit I mostly copied the fonts from the book, whereas C(10) made up more of her own. It was a start, though!
Wow! That is fabulous, I love it. So creative.
Thanks very much, Mary, you are very kind. 🙂
I like it. That might be a fun doodling project for my son. Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks, Beth.
What a creative and fresh look at Valentine’s Day! Thanks for sharing at After School!
Thanks, Stephanie! It’s rare I manage to line things up in time for holidays like Valentines Day, so I took myself by surprise with this one. 😉
Very fun idea! Thanks for linking up! Solagratiamom
Thanks, Colleen. It was fun 🙂
This is lovely! Thank you for linking up at the All Things Kids Languages of Love linky. We’re pinning this on our collaborative board now!
Thank you so much. 🙂 I loved the linky!