Where does one even begin?

 With a mind map, that started slow and then suddenly took off! During the summer up until now (June & July) I had many ideas on what I could do and got them all down on paper alongside my general interests, to build upon. I then went to the story museum in Oxford jn the hopes of gaining a bit inspiration which is when the mind map really took off:


Straight away I had decided it was going to be a children’s book, with pop-up/interactive elements because I really enjoyed my final project last year and I want to expand on the skills I learnt! Initially I thought about connecting the emotional side of being a kid - wanting to grow up like yesterday, wanting freedom, wanting to do everything your older siblings or parents are doing, compared with pretty much every adult that wants to be a kid again! Or looking at ways in which kids can accept who they are and embrace potential differences as opposed to feeling as if they need to be the same as everyone else to be accepted. These are the kind of things that would have been useful to me as a kid and so that's where my mind went almost instantly. I then started to widen my thinking to in interactive recipe book as one of my key interests is cooking and experimenting with recipes and healthy, thresh eating isn't always an interest of kids and so making it into an adventure almost could work really well. Prior to going to the museum, this was my top idea and the one that I could see working the best as an interactive book but visiting the museum gave me a new run of inspiration. 

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