And for bonus challenges...
A mouse's world in the walls of your house.
From my room to the hidden cookie jar.
Treasure.
Avoid the bullies! A map of your school.
This was brought up in another thread but I think the budding young artist deserves protection from thread jacking .
The idea of a children's map challenge strikes me as a worthwhile event. It might be better done with a possible Email address - say 'youthmaps@cartographersguild.com' to work in conjunction with the normal forum entried. We could have a 2 month challenge with 'awards' every 2 weeks.
Adults might play a fairly large motivational\organizational role with something like this. They could enter them here or send them by email and we'd have a gallery everyone could view. Based on the entrees we could come up with categories - biggest world, most monsters, best colours etc.... Hopefully there would be a lot of good things we could say.
Assuming Arcana is hipped on the idea, it would be elegant if we could tie it to a day in the year... Ideas? and then give interested people a little warning. A lot of adults might want something to teach the children while they encourage them to map.
I have no idea how many children are within ear shot to participate. Anyone know?
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Dollhouse Syndrome = The temptation to turn a map into a picture, obscuring the goal of the image with the appeal of cute, or simply available, parts. Maps have clarity through simplification.
--- Sigurd
And for bonus challenges...
A mouse's world in the walls of your house.
From my room to the hidden cookie jar.
Treasure.
Avoid the bullies! A map of your school.
Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go.
Make a castle.
Map the neighborhood.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Sounds good, i just asked my daughter (she is 11) and she has already been bugging me about my maps, and how i do it, so she is in.
Your room is the battlefield between toy soldiers....
Yeah, I kind of thought of that, as I was jacking his thread!
Favorite fairy tale? Though I don't know if fairy tales are told to kids anymore - little red riding hood, 3 little bears, etc.
It all seems good though!
GP
PS: no kids myself, I've got nephews though! Got both of them to play with Campaign Cartographers and Fractal Mapper, and Dundjinni, so they know how to make maps too!
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Excellent idea!
I have two nephews, ages 9 and 6, who might be very interested in this, with Uncle Jaerdaph's encouragement.
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Maybe have each kid make a 'Bridge to Terabithia' map of a fantasized world based on the surroundings of their house.