Guiding Art, Block building, and Sensory Experiences

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Guiding Art, Block building, and Sensory
Experiences

• Chapter 18

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Importance of art experience

• Promotes physical, social, emotional, cognitive
  growth
• Movements involved in painting ,coloring,
  drawing, scribbling, and playing with clay
• Fine motor skills
• Foster motor and hand-eye coordination
• Learn responsibility
• Express emotions
• Exploring experimenting and problem solving

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Techniques for guiding art experiences

• Various art materials and opportunities to create
• Do not force tasks
• Do not ask what making
• Let them decide when art is finished
• Model art appreciation
• Hang work

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Stages of art skill development

• 1- scribbles- 15 mos.-3 yrs
• Eye hand coordination not very well developed
• Physical sensation
• Make comments about the artwork
• 2- basic forms- ages 3-4
• Ovals, rectangles, circles
• More control better hand-eye coordination
• Make connections between movement and marks
• Feel pride
• Talk about work

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• 3rd- first drawings- fourth and fifth years
• First real drawings
• Increase skill
• Combine shapes to represent objects and people

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Art supplies and tools

• Basic tools
• Scissors, paintbrushes, cookie cutters, easels,
  paper punches
• Tempera Paint
• Liquid and powdered form
• Add bentonite to extend paint
• Recipe on pg 287
• Brushes
• Size from ½ to 1 inch
• Younger wider brushes
• Use other items such as string, cotton, sponges,
  feathers etc.

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• Easels
• Sturdy adjustable
• Brushes and paint in attached tray
• Angle painting surface
• Crayons, chalk, and felt-tip markers
• Always buy washable
• Paper and painting surfaces
• Newsprint, manila paper, construction paper,
  wallpaper, cardboard, old newspaper etc.
• Younger need larger surfaces
• Coloring books
• Negative effect limits creativity
• Use activites that allow children to explore

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• Paste
• Add small quantities of glue to paste to extend
  it and make it more durable
• Paste recipe page 289
• Glue
• White liquid glue is the best adhesive
• Difficult to remove from clothing
• Cleanup tools
• Keep in art area with in children's reach
• Space and Storage
• Keep supplies on hand
• Need containers of varying sizes
• Need to be organized and appeal to children

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Painting Activities

• Listen and watch
• Some like tools some like feelings and visual
  aspects
• Some comment to selves as paint
• Tell what child thinks and feels
• Painting activites include
• Easel, finger, string, texture, salt, mono, spice
  and chalk
• Learn to apply correct amounts of paint and
  recognize color and shapes

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• Easel Painting
• Daily activity
• Height for child
• Brushes long handles of different width brushes
• Large sheets for younger
• Wear smocks
• Only one child per easel
• Teach how to use brush.
• Dip into and wipe excess off on side of container
• Smaller brushes and paper as skill increases
• Wash brushes place handles down

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• Finger Painting
• Sensory experience
• Promotes expression and release of feelings
• More supervision
• Stay at table wash immediately
• Recipes page 292
• String Painting
• Cut several pieces
• Show children how to slide through paint and then
  onto the paper
• Or place string in folded paper and pull out

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• Mono Painting
• Finger paint 8x12 paper
• Place another paper over top, pat, then pull
  apart
• Chalk Painting
• Dip chalk into water and draw
• Add vinegar to water to deepen color
• Texture Painting
• Add sand, saw dust, or coffee grounds to paint
• Paint needs to be thick

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• Salt Painting
• Materials needed
• Construction paper or cardboard
• Paste or glue
• Cotton swabs or tongue depressors
• Salt mixed with paint in shakers
• Spread glue on paper
• Shake salt onto glue
• Shake off excess
• Let dry
• Spice painting
• Small amount of water to liquid glue
• Spread over paper
• Shake spices onto

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Molding

• Play dough and clay
• Stimulate imagination
• Tactile quality
• 2- pull, beat, push, squeeze
• 3- balls and snake shapes
• 4- complex forms which may name
• Clay
• Keep in air tight container

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• Play dough
• Different recipes produce different textures
• Can add rice, cornmeal, pebbles, sand, oats,
  coffee grounds
• Can scent
• plasticene- oil based commercially manufactured
  modeling compound
• Does not dry out
• Can be used daily with little care
• Leaves oily residue

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Cutting

• Each day
• 1st cut in straight line so give long strips to
  cut
• Avoid heavy paper
• Curves require eye hand coordination
• Give quality scissors and left handed
• Use same material until mastered
• Rounded tips

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Collages

• collage selection of materials mounted on a flat
  surface
• Make choices
• Introduce contrasting colors and textures
• Base heavy weight
• Put materials in attractive containers
• Provide adhesives
• Tint glue with paint

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Block building

• Reaching stretching, and changing body positions
• Improve eye hand coordination
• New concepts and skills
• Stages of block building
• 1- two- carry around and fill containers
• 2- 2-3- stack vertically or lay horizontally
• Build until run out of blocks or space
• 3-bridging- process of placing two blocks
  vertically a space apart then third block on top

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• Build over and over
• 4-construct enclosures
• 5- 3-4- more intricate buildings
• choose blocks carefully for design
• 6-naming and include dramatic play
• 7-5- decide prior to construction
• More symbolic and with dramatic play
• Play with same structure for several days
• Types of blocks and accessories
• Wood, cardboard, plastic, rubber, foam
• Lightweight material
• Variety of shapes and sizes
• Simple accessories

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Sensory Experiences Sand and Water Play

• Indoors and out
• Unstructured and fluid materials
• Relieves tension
• Social interaction
• Sand play
• 8-12 inch ledge
• Quiet area
• Near water source
• Far from building entrance
• Variety of containers and tools
• Accessories for play

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• Water play
• Can use snow
• Shaving cream, food coloring, soap
• Provide variety of tools from kitchen to use
• Wash dolls, use boats
• Hoses, wagons
• Woodworking
• Hammering usually first interest
• Promotes eye hand coordination
• Fine and gross motor development
• Creative expression
• Demonstrate how to use
• Tree stump
• Lightweight easy to grip