Children's Art Lessons- FREE DOWNLOADS
Disclaimer: Artisan Life
Any person opting to utilize free children's art lessons does so at their own risk. Karen Elzinga and Artisan Life will not be held responsible for any injuries associated with the following lesson activities. Please use common sense.
Tip: When using children's art lessons start with age appropriate activities, your child will get frustrated easily when an activity is to hard for them and may form a dislike of "Art & Craft".
Tip: Allow children to make mistakes when creating, over correcting kid's may lead to feelings that they are not capable. Children learn through mistakes and it's a big process of creative learning. Not everything has to be a masterpiece!
Art Classes Gympie!
Praise and encourage your child/ren often, but do it in a way that is constructive. "Jimmy, l love that way that you painted yellow and red colours to the sky, it looks like a sunset, is that right?" Ask questions and get them to explain their designs over simply stating oh that is a very nice painting to every single picture they create. Use art as a conversation, it is great for language acquisition, building communication skills and building their art language word base.
TIP: Early Child development and learning centres around a theory called constructivism by a world renowned child development expert Jean Piaget. He believed that children learn best by building upon their prior knowledge. By building on your child's previous learnt knowledge, your child will form a solid foundation if you start slowly, and build a materials library bank of knowledge. For e.g. most children know that you can draw on paper, but teach them other crafts that can be done with paper to extend their knowledge of what paper can do. By building children's library of memories and thus confidence in working with paper, children will be able to recall past experiences and explore in new creative ways in the future. Think: collage, scrapbooking, 3D cubes, paper chains, making recycled paper, scrunching paper or cutting it to build shapes, animals or people.
Karen Elzinga Designs are for the personal use of Elzinga Collective creative customers. They are not intended for redistribution or sale. They can however be copied and used in schools, community groups, nursing homes, and collective groups in general.
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