Have you heard of vision boards? They’re everywhere lately! They’re collages full of images and words that represent the goals and dreams that you want to achieve for your new year.
So, they’re completely customized to yourself and your life. A lot of people make them to help them visualize what they want and go for it without losing track of the goal in the process.
Though we tend to see a lot of adults create their own boards, we think it’s also a perfect activity for kids. And guess what? They can add their Spanish language goals for this new year to the collage!
So if you’re looking for a cool activity full of arts and crafts to do with your children, you’re in the right place. We’ve created this guide on how to help your kids make a vision board in Spanish for their new year. It will help them bring structure to their dreams and improve their Spanish in the process.
And, let’s be honest, it’s also a super cute frame to hang in their rooms. Come with us!
What You’ll Need
- Scissors – Tijeras
- Newspapers – Periódicos
- Magazines – Revistas
- A foam board or a big size chart paper – Un cartón pluma o una cartulina
- Glue – Pegamento
- Stickers – Calcomanías / Pegatinas
- Glitter – Brillantina / Purpurina
Instructions to Create Your Vision Board
1. Set the goals / Establece las metas
First off, ask your kids their dreams and goals for the new year. Write them down on a piece of paper. This will help you both organize your kids’ dreams. So you don’t start adding things they really don’t want just because the pictures look cute in the magazines.
One recommendation would be to ask this in Spanish, so you encourage them to answer in their target language as well. For example, you can say: “¿Qué sueños quieren cumplir este 2025?” (Which dreams do you want to achieve in 2025?).
Some dreams can be too long to achieve in just one year. Help your children adjust their dreams, so they’re doable in a certain amount of time. For example: If they say they want to be Spanish experts, that might be too much for one year. But they can start speaking in Spanish or watching Hispanic movies without subtitles; of course, it all depends on their level.
Don’t forget to ask them about their Spanish learning dreams and goals. They should also be on the board. So, you can set them up for success in bilingualism for this new year! In fact, the board can be only about Spanish language learning goals. But we suggest it’s a combination between this and other dreams.
2. Time to cut! / ¡Hora de cortar!
Grab the magazines and newspapers. Focusing on the list you just wrote, start cutting pictures and words related to your kids’ goals and dreams. For example: If they want to start reading books in Spanish, cut the picture of a book. Bonus points if it looks like it has a Spanish title.
Or if they want to enroll in a soccer team, cut the image of a soccer ball or their favorite player. You could also cut the word that says the name of their favorite team; for example: “Barcelona”. Or the word of the soccer position they want to play in, like “portero” (goalkeeper).
If you prefer, you can look up the images on the internet and print them; Pinterest is a great app for this. Though we think looking for them in magazines and cutting them is much more fun.
We recommend the magazines and newspapers to be completely in Spanish. So your kids acquire more vocabulary while going through the pages. This might sound weird, because they’ll be looking for images, not reading the text. But while they look for pictures of words, they might read some things.
Of course, only if this is accessible to you. Maybe you have a Hispanic neighbor or friend that can lend you some old magazines.
3. Bring it to life! / ¡Dale vida!
Grab the big size chart paper of your kids’ favorite color or a foam board, whatever you want. Start gluing the images and words onto it. If you prefer to be more organized, you can glue the images one next to the other, kind of like a grid. And maybe divide them into topics.
For example: on the top row you can put all the pictures related to one dream. Like all the images about being on a soccer team.
Then, on the second row, glue all the images about learning Spanish, and so on. Though, we have to be honest, must people make it like a collage, so pictures over other pictures.
But it’s your children’s choice and whatever they do is all right. After all, vision boards are designed to the person’s taste, and they’re also all about using your creativity. That’s what makes it so fun.
4. Unleash your creativity / Dale rienda suelta a tu creatividad
Maybe there are some spaces left on the board. You can leave it like that. But we think it will feel more personal if your kids add some stickers in those spaces. They can also add glitter.
In Spanish we have a phrase that says: “Dale rienda suelta a tu creatividad” (unleash your creativity). And this step is all about that. Let your kids add whatever they want.
5. Hang up the vision board / Cuelga el tablero de visión
Now, hang up the vision board or paste it on a wall. We recommend it’s in a place where your kids will look at it daily. Maybe in front of their computer or on the wall above the headboard of their beds.
This will allow your kids to visualize their dreams daily and feel motivated to pursue them. They’ll also be reminded of them every single day. Because sometimes we can lose track of that when we get too much in the routine.
6. Don’t forget to help your kids achieve their goals / No olvides ayudar a tus hijos a lograr sus metas
A lot of times, kids will need your help to achieve their goals. It’s not just about looking at the board, but about getting down to work. Maybe you could set some time in the day to help them with whatever they need to make those dreams a reality.
Give Your Child the Gift of Spanish!
Add More Spanish to the Process of Making the Vision Board
During the steps to make the vision board, we already gave you some tips to add some Spanish to the activity. But here are some more things you can do to make your kids improve their Spanish skills while making this activity:
- Talk to them in Spanish. Besides asking in Spanish what their goals for the new year are, you can also add some other words and phrases in Spanish. For example: Above we wrote the Spanish meaning of the things you’ll need to make the vision board. We also put the Spanish translations to the titles for each step. Use them when talking to your kids.
- Besides asking them about their dreams, ask them other questions in Spanish. We have some recommendations below. This way they’ll have to answer in Spanish as well. If you see that they respond in their mother tongue, just pause while looking at them until they answer in Spanish. Soon, they’ll realize that they can’t speak their first language during the activity.
- Invite some of your kids’ Hispanic or language class friends to make the activity together. They all can make their own vision boards. It’ll be much more fun. The goals might be different, but they all speak or are learning to speak Spanish, so they can practice together and help each other.
Questions to Ask Your Kids During the Activity
Here are some questions you can ask your kids while making the vision board to encourage them to speak Spanish:
- What color is the glitter you want to put on your vision board? / ¿De qué color es el glitter que quieres poner en tu tablero de visión?
- Do you know what this is? (*ask while showing them one of the tools you’ll use in the vision board) / ¿Sabes qué es esto?
- ¿Would you like to paste some stickers on the vision board? / ¿Te gustaría pegarle algunas calcomanías al tablero de visión?
- What’s your biggest goal for this new year? / ¿Cuál es tu meta principal para este año nuevo?
- Why do you want to learn Spanish? / ¿Por qué quieres aprender español?
Start the New Year Con el Pie Derecho with TruFluency Kids
One of your and your kids’ vision board goals is to learn or improve their Spanish? Awesome! We’re here to help. Yes, us! TruFluency Kids is a completely online Spanish immersion school. This means you can study with us from anywhere in the world at any time. Forget about driving hours in the traffic just to bring your kids to school.
But what else does that mean? That we have native teachers that will make sure students learn in a complete Spanish environment. We barely use English. This way they acquire the language more naturally and casually, almost like it’s their mother tongue.
We teach through fun activities; this DIY is just one example of it. We also sing, play, cook and do other crafts in Spanish. So kids don’t get bored. And there’s speaking practice in every lesson. That’s right, we encourage kids to speak during class. That’s the only way to achieve Spanish fluency.
Your kids can take a trial class now. Let us prove to you how committed we are. Then, sign them up for our next four-week session. With our help, they’ll start the new year con el pie derecho (on the right food).
