Sometimes, like the main character in The Dot, we are paralyzed by the worry that we can’t do something well enough. And other times, we try to do something well and are devastated when it doesn’t go the way we planned. Beautiful Oops is a book by Barney Saltzberg that encourages us to make the best of our mistakes. It is a great book for younger children – full of interactive pages and colorful pictures.
While I was looking for resources to accompany the book on the web, I found a great Pinterest Board from @KirstyHornblow that is full of ideas to go with the book. For example, I am totally going to try the lemon juice/watercolor idea from artprojectsforkids.org.
Beautiful Oops is a nice way to talk about Growth Mindset with young students, and I am definitely going to add it to my Growth Mindset Pinterest Board.
By the way, I added a few extra resources to that board this weekend, including several that I found on Larry Ferlazzo’s site. The one below, tweeted by @BradHandrich, fits the theme of this post quite well!
I love this post. I want to tie it to the book The Most Magnificent Thing.
Me too! That is an awesome book!