How To Teach Children'S Art

HOW TO TEACH CHILDREN’S ART
WHAT CAN ART DO FOR CHILDREN?

• It is therapeutic – can be an expression of strong
feelings.
• can help improve areas of deficit like:

– Cognition and sensory-motor function
– Self-esteem and self-awareness
– Emotional resilience
– Insight
– Social skills
– Conflicts and distress
• 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?
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?
• Free choice – develops independence
• No lessons
– Picasso said we should learn to draw like a child –
they teach us to be fresh and spontaneous.
• Remember it is the Process not the Product
that is important.
• 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.
• Schematic: About age 7 – like to represent forms.

• Schematic continued:
– Sex differences at this age.
• What do boys draw? What do girls draw?
• 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.
– List how Lucy and Charlie Brown are alike.
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
Cont’d
Wire Whip & Fly Swatter Art

Paint Roller Art
Salad Spinner Art
Colored Bubbles
Eye Dropper Art
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

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HOW TO TEACH CHILDREN’S ART

WHAT CAN ART DO FOR CHILDREN?

• can help improve areas of deficit like:

• Scribbling: Begins at 18 months, usually zig

• Pre-schematic: 4 year olds try to represent

• Schematic: About age 7 – like to represent forms.

DRAW YOUR CHILDHOOD HOUSE AND LANDSCAPE.

Take a right brain test

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

Right Brain doesn’t recognize

Wire Whip & Fly Swatter Art

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