artwork

Childrens Artwork

Working with art materials offers children opportunitites to experiment with color, shape, design, and texture. For young children, the process of creating is what's most important, not what they actually create. As children draw, paint, and make collages, they experiment with color, line, shape, and size. They use paints, fabrics, and chalk to make choices, try out ideas, plan, and experiment. They learn about cause and effect when they mix colors. Through trial and error, they learn how to balance a mobile and weave yarn. Art also offers opportunities for physical development. As children tear paper for a collage or use scissors to cut, they refine small muscle movements. Making lines and shapes with markers and crayons helps children develop the fine motor control they will need for writing.

*Objectives for Socio-Emotional Development:
# Learn to channel frustration and anger in a socially acceptable way (punching and pounding clay).
#Assert individuality (drawing a pumpkin that differs in color and design from the traditional).

*Objectives for Cognitive Development
#Enhance creativity (combining materials and textures for a collage in a unique way.)
#Develop an understanding of cause and effect (observing what happens when blue paint is added to yellow).

*Objectives for Physical Development
   #Develop small muscle skills (coloring with markers).
   #Refine eye-hand coordination (pouring tempera into an easel paint can).
   #Learn directionality (painting a circle with one continuous brush stroke)