Zentangle for Home School

The Parallel of Zentangle is…                                                                     Home School, Un School, Non School

There is no way to stop your kids from being creative! If they are home schooled, un-schooled or non-schooled, kids who learn at home have a unique opportunity to enjoy the creative process for as long as they wish.

Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns. When your child creates a Zentangle, they can create a beautiful piece of art. They also can deliberately create a mood, a focus, a state of mind.

The Parallel of Zentangle & Home Schooling

Like home schooled, un-schooled or non-schooled experiences, there are no correct answers. Zentangle offers both a freedom and a challenge like your kids create each day. Unlike crossword, jigsaw, or Sudoku puzzles, there is no predetermined right answer. You cannot fail to create a Zentangle. At first this freedom can be a bit unnerving. Soon it becomes a freeing and uplifting experience as you realize you can create never-ending, ever-changing “solutions.”

Deliberate Stroke

In Zentangle, you draw each stroke consciously and deliberately. We are always making “strokes” (thoughts, words, deeds) in our life. By taking Zentangle’s inspiration to make each stroke deliberate, you understand how those apparently small and insignificant “strokes” of our moment to moment lives contribute to your life’s pattern.

Deliberate Focus

Just as you make a deliberate pen stroke on your Zentangle, that very act of putting your pen to paper focuses your attention in a way similar to meditation or being “in the zone.” As your eye follows your pen strokes your attention shifts to a state that allows fresh thoughts, new perspectives, and creative insights to flow unhindered by anxiety or effort.

No Eraser

There is no eraser in life and there is no eraser in Zentangle. However, in Zentangle (and in life), you discover that even if you make what seems to be a mistake, you can then build on that event as a new pattern and go in unexpected and exciting new directions.

Unknown Outcomes

Unlike most art, or most activities, you start out intentionally not knowing what your Zentangle will look like. Zentangle takes brainstorming to a new level with its metaphor of “not knowing” and by not planning ahead for an intended outcome. This method supports and inspires participants to build and expand on each new idea unhindered and unconstrained by limiting preconceptions.

Fractal

Zentangle mimics this universe’s fractal nature. Each stroke creates a tangle (our word for a pattern). Tangles are nested within a string (our word for a line which creates areas within which tangles are drawn). Tiles (our word for our paper on which you draw a Zentangle) can be grouped in mosaics of still larger patterns.

Abstract

You always succeed when you do a Zentangle because you always create a pattern. A Zentangle has no up or down and is not a picture of something, so you have no worries about whether you can draw a hand, or a duck. You always succeed in creating a Zentangle.

It is a fascinating new art form that is fun and relaxing. It increases focus and creativity. Zentangle provides artistic satisfaction and an increased sense of personal well-being. A perfect addition to your home schooled, un-schooled or non-schooled life.