"Growing Up as a Young Artist" is an illustrated book assignment that involves researching family scrapbooks, photo albums and films, and inquiring about family anecdotes for clues to one's artistic roots. Students creatively reflect on their early memories of imaginative events, as each page is filled with memories of creative activities they enjoyed, their dreams and plans they had. In this project, everyone is celebrated as an artist. Children and student art teachers create artistic memory books. For the teachers, it's important to keep their childhood in focus as they set out to create authentic art experiences for young students.