Art and Creative Development for Children Please place your name sign at your place on the table Feel free to add to your sign however you wish BE CREATIVE 3 Introduce or Reintroduce yourself to your table mates ID: 396937
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Welcome to CHD 014: Art and Creative Development for Children
Please place your name sign at your place on the table. Feel free to add to your sign however you wish. BE CREATIVE!
3) Introduce or Re-introduce yourself to your table mates.Slide2
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”~ Paul KleeSlide3
What did YOU do that was creative this week?Please take a few moments to share with your table-mates What did you do that was creative this week?How did it feel to be creative?Were you inspired to be creative other times after this experience?Were there any products or was it only process?Slide4
Scribble TherapyPick two crayons of different colors Take a blank piece of white paperLet go of everything you think that you know about creativityWait for directionsSlide5
With your small group:Tell your group mates what your personal reactions were to this experience:What were your thoughts and feelings as you scribbled?How did this activity allow you to be creative?Use your sense and/or imagination?Challenge your idea of creativity?Fill out a Creative Experience Form for your binder and keep it with your drawing.Slide6
Children can be highly creative!What happens to the level of unbridled enthusiasm between 4 and 14To US between 14 and 40?Slide7
In the early childhood classroom, the creative child is: The Curious Child. Is not afraid to ask questionsThe Flexible Child. Willing to try different approachesThe Sensitive ChildThe Child Who Looks for Hidden Meanings. They are able to connect things which seem unrelated to others. Slide8
In the classroom, the creative child is:The Child Who is Self-Motivated. They march to a different drummerThe Child Who is an Original ThinkerThe Reflective Child. They possesses insight. Metacognition. They think about their thinking.Slide9
Question?What keeps us from being creative? What hinders or inhibits our creativity?Slide10
Finger PaintingClean up and prepare for your next activityTake time at the table to truly explore the properties of the paint you are givenPaint, feel, explore, without thought of the “product”Explore what happens with different colors as you combine, experiment and discoverTake your timeSlide11
With your small group:Tell your group mates what your personal reactions were to this experience:What were your thoughts and feelings as you painted?How did this activity allow you to be creative?Use your sense and/or imagination?Challenge your idea of creativity?Fill out a Creative Experience Form for your binder and keep it with your painting.Slide12
Obstacles to Creativity:Home: creative children may be thought of as “naughty.” They are always into something!School: schools often value convergent thinking. It begins with crafts. Creative children often “shut down” in school. Gender: roles influence both boys and girls ability to be creative.Society, Culture and Tradition: “that just not the way it is done in our family/culture/community.Slide13
Children Need Adults Who Facilitate Creative Expression!Celebrate Creativity! Point out children’s creative solutions and ideas when you see them. Creativity will grow when you cultivate it!Be a Creative Partner: Follow the Leader! Empower children’s creativity by allowing yourself (in invited) into their creative world.Slide14
Children Need Adults Who Facilitate Creative Expression!Provide Toys and Materials which are open ended and conducive to creativity.Provide Time and Space for CreativityMake Opportunities for Creative Expression throughout Your Curriculum: Individuals find their creative niche in different ways! Creativity should not be confined to the art area.Slide15
Children Need Adults Who Facilitate Creative Expression!Provide a Climate which Allows the Creative Disposition to Thrive! The early childhood classroom should be a safe place for risk taking, where trust and respect flourish and children do not fear criticism, rejection or pressure to conform. Mistakes and “failures” are viewed as part of the learning process.Value Creativity: means putting your money, time and practice where you mouth is! View creative development as a necessary aspect of growth. Slide16
Creativity is a value.Our values inhabit our classrooms and programs; they dictate our philosophies. Our philosophies guide our practice and what we do with children.Slide17
BlocksClean up and prepare for your next activityTake time at the table to truly explore the properties of the blocks you are givenBuild, dream, explore, without thought of the “product”Explore what happens with different blocks as you combine them and build in ways to represent your ideasTake your timeSlide18
With your small group:Tell your group mates what your personal reactions were to this experience:What were your thoughts and feelings as you built?How did this activity allow you to be creative?Use your sense and/or imagination?Challenge your idea of creativity?Fill out a Creative Experience Form for your binder and keep it with pictures or drawings that represent your building.Slide19
Autobiographical CollageQuestions?Slide20
What have you learned about creativity in the last week?Be yourselfBe differentSatisfy your imaginationThink outside the boxLet goBreak the rulesBe uniqueSurprise yourself and others
Be free
Encourage creative without interference
Be brave
Taste it ALL
Be interested
Be natural & pure
Avoid models
Don’t stop children from exploring
Concrete experiences
Don’t copy
You are more capable than you think
Free experiences
Open ended
TAKE RISKS!!!Slide21
Next Week – 9/10/2014BE CREATIVE in some way that does NOT have a product!! TAKE RISKS!! Report back next week.Read Chapter 2 from the bookRead instructor’s article: Children Learn to Thinnk and Create Through Art - posted on AngelDue: Autobiographical CollageDue: Creativity PackDUE: Draft Creative Experience Forms (3)