HOW TO TEACH CHILDRENS ART WHAT CAN ART

HOW TO TEACH CHILDREN’S ART

WHAT CAN ART DO FOR CHILDREN? • It is therapeutic – can be an expression of strong feelings. • A means to express self – interest, perceptions and style. – Children are not yet under the constraints of realism. – They feel free to represent in their art what matters to them. – Shows the uniqueness of child’s identity. • Gives them a sense of accomplishment. – What if they ask you to do it for them?

WHAT CAN ART DO FOR CHILDREN? Cont’d • Gives them a heightened awareness and appreciation of the beauty of the visual world. • Helps them organize and understand the world. • Visual thinking helps intellectual and emotional development. – Art is a record of growth and the child’s unique way of relating to the world.

HOW TO TEACH ART: • Each child should feel that his art is taken seriously, understood, commented on and appreciated. – It sometimes seems funny but remember the intention is serious. • Don’t judge or inhibit spontaneous expression.

HOW TO TEACH ART: Cont’d • How to respond: – What does it represent? – Tell me about it. – How is it organized? – What is it about? – Where does the idea come from?

HOW TO TEACH ART: Cont’d • Free choice – develops independence • No lessons – Picasso said we should learn to draw like a child – they teach us to be fresh and spontaneous.

HOW TO TEACH ART: Cont’d • Remember it is the Process not the Product that is important.

HOW TO TEACH ART: Cont’d • Expect a mess – Help child feel safe with a mess by always wearing smocks if needed. – Encourage children to try using materials in different ways. • “I wonder if the bottom side of the crayon will work the same way as the pointed end”. – Get excited about their discoveries and share your own discoveries as you work along with them.

STAGES OF ART • Scribbling: Begins at 18 months, usually zig zags, by 3 uses shapes in scribbling.

STAGES OF ART: Cont’d • Pre-schematic: 4 year olds try to represent things, colors not realistic.

STAGES OF ART: Cont’d • Schematic: About age 7 – like to represent forms.

STAGES OF ART: Cont’d • Schematic continued: – Sex differences at this age. • What do boys draw? What do girls draw?

STAGES OF ART: Cont’d • Realism: About age 9, smaller, more details, don’t want to show work, often get discouraged. Why?

DO WE LEARN TO DRAW A LANDSCAPE? DRAW YOUR CHILDHOOD HOUSE AND LANDSCAPE.

WHAT IS CREATIVITY? • Elaboration: Ability to expand on ideas – “What if fish could fly? ” • Originality: Ability to create unique, clever responses. – Invent an interesting way to keep a cobweb collection. • Problem Solving: Ability to sense solutions and problems. – You don’t have a paint brush, but you have paint.

WHAT IS CREATIVITY? Cont’d • Fluency: The ability to produce numerous ideas, word, symbols and relationships. – Make a list of sticky things to eat. – List what you would take to Mars. – List how you would get to school without getting wet in the rain without an umbrella? – List pink things that are fun. • Flexibility: Ability to change the mode of a response. – List ways to use chewing gum wrappers. Do Whacky Wordy

YOUR BRAIN: • Left Brain: – Dominant, analyzes, counts, marks time, verbalizes, logical. • Right Brain: – Visual, dream, create, intuition, time free. • School doesn’t teach this mode. Take a right brain test

HANDEDNESS: • Is it related to right brain/left brain? • 5 -12% are left handed – Which position is correct?

HANDEDNESS: Taken from “Helping your left-handed child” by Ruth Fagg

EXPERIENCE THE SHIFT FROM LEFT TO RIGHT BRAIN: • • Draw with opposite hand Draw upside down Listen to soft music (no words) Symmetrical drawings Right Brain doesn’t recognize and label things that are upside down.

WHO IS THIS PERSON?

ART ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN: ART PROJECTS • Cooked play dough • Goofy Goop • Texture pictures with sand paper & crayons • Light Table • Tissue paper Art • Tie Die Art

ART ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN: Cont’d Wire Whip & Fly Swatter Art Paint Roller Art Salad Spinner Art Colored Bubbles Eye Dropper Art

ART ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN: Cont’d Sweetened Condensed Milk Art Foam Art Gelatin Giggles Collage Art

Magnet Painting Rubber Band Painting Fabric and cotton on a stick Paint Bombs Paint Rollers Wire whisk Tissue on paper-squirt with water Color on sandpaper, and iron White pasta, make snowflakes Spray bottles in snow, mix colors Tape tongue depressors, Draw pic's and make a puzzle Graphing on shower curtain Wands-Hangers and Tissue paper TP tubes with ribbon PVC pipes and sensory tables Berry Baskets and Hole Punches

Play Dough Cereal Art Spaghetti Art Bubble Gum Art String Art Leaf Print- Dip in paint and print Tissue on paper and squirt with water Color on sand paper and bake to melt Punch out on paper and brush over Strainer Warming Tray Hand Christmas Tree Cup Cake liners- Snowman, flowers Popsicle sticks: Flowers and Triangle Cornflake Wreath Ball with glued tissue paper and glitter

Salt Dough Ornaments Cinnamon Sticks rubbed on and cut out as ornaments Squirt Shaving Cream on Laminated Santa Face Finger Painting Mix Colors- charts Shaving Cream on bag to mix colors Eye Droppers Spray bottles in snow to mix colors Soak tongue depressor in food coloring, dry-mix Shaving Cream Weave Plastic mat in slits-Chicken wire, cardboard and yarn Lacing Cards- lace with yarn, pipe cleaner, or shoelaces Tape tongue depressors, draw pictures, then make into puzzle