Archive for Art Education
Creative Castle LEAVES KidsU Norwalk
We are sad to report that Creative Castle art classes for kids has left KidsU Norwalk as of July 2009 due to Kids U Norwalk breaching our contract.
We may reopen in Westport CT and offer after school art classes.
How Creativity & Intelligence Differ
Understand how creativity and intelligence differ and how to measure your child’s creativity.
Creativity and Intelligence are not the same thing.
Creativity is a special type of problem solving ability that is employed when conventional solutions won’t work. Creativity calls for flexibility and adaptability in the way someone thinks.
With young children creativity should focus in developing [...]
Scribbling How Reading and Writing Begin
Tips to help your child develop writing skills.
1st Stage of Art Development - SCRIBBLING
SCRIBBLING
All young children take great pleasure in moving a crayon or pencil across a surface and leaving a mark. This form of mark-making or “scribbling” represents children’s first self-initiated encounters with art.
Children typically begin scribbling around one-and-a-half years of age. Most observers of child drawing believe that children engage in scribbling not to draw a [...]
2nd Stage of Art Development - PRE-SYMBOLISM
PRE-SYMBOLISM
Around three to four years of age, children begin to combine the circle with one or more lines in order to represent a human figure. These figures typically start out looking like “tadpoles” and then gradually become “head-feet” symbols. It is not uncommon for children’s first representations of the figure to be highly unrealistic or [...]
3rd Stage of Art Development - SYMBOLISM
SYMBOLISM
By the age of five or six, most children have developed a repertoire of graphic equivalents or symbols for the things in their environment including a house, a tree, a person, and so on. These symbols are highly individualized since they result from childrens conceptual understanding rather than observation of the world around them. For [...]
4th Stage of Art Development - REALISM
REALISM
By the age of nine or ten, many children exhibit greater visual awareness of the things around them. As a result, they become increasingly conscious of details and proportion in what they are drawing. They typically include body parts such as lips, fingernails, hairstyles, and joints in their drawings of people. They also show more [...]
Developmental Benefits of Working with Clay (Playdough)
Children enjoy every aspect of the exploration of this amazing material. When given modeling compound toddlers are instinctively motivated to explore its soft and responsive sensory qualities. They poke it, squeeze it, pat it, pick it up and push it down. The compound responds to each of their actions and the child is learning that his/her [...]
