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Introducing Your Child to the Arts: Your Child and the Visual Arts
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."- Pablo Picasso, visual artist ...
Source: National Endowment for the Arts
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Raising Young Artists
Your refrigerator is likely covered with masterpieces. You've probably had chalk, paint and play-dough on every surface ...
Source: Education.com
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Childhood Artwork: What to Look For
A child's artistic development follows a common pattern from ages two to twelve. Learning what's key to each stage will ...
Source: Education.com
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Responding Appropriately to Children's Art
Two-year-old Katie likes to curl up with Kirstie, a border collie, while she is looking at books and produces a ...
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Why Art is Important for Young Children
Before making decisions about what to include in our arts programs and how we will go about our work with the children, ...
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A Family's Role in Developing Visual Arts Experiences at Home
Families must be kept informed of art activities taking place in the classroom in order to maintain the artistic ...
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A Family's Role in Developing Three-Dimensional Art at home
Provide children with many types of clay. These can include play dough, homemade clay, salt clay, and modeling clay. ...
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Activities for Exploring Art
By 18 months old, children enjoy arranging blocks in a row and making a pattern in a sandbox by raking the sand with ...
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Activities for Planned Art
While process art can be made available to all children at any time, planned art activities require special teacher ...
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Learning Disabilities and the Arts
The arts are more than a fun, superficial way to keep kids occupied. Art activities can help children with learning ...
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Everyday Art
A lot of parents believe that their children are either born with artistic talent or they're not. But research suggests ...
Source: Greater Good Magazine
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Developmental Stages of Drawing
1-2 years: random scribbling. The child uses random scribble marks simply as a sensorimotor activity.2-2½ years: ...
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The Value of Art for the Preschool Child
Art is basic. Of course, every subject area is important, but no program for young children could succeed without ...
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Art Milestones: What's Typical at Each Stage of Life
No one teaches an infant to scribble. Yet, for almost every young child, scribbling happens naturally. And it is a ...
Source: Education.com
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Introducing Your Child to the Arts: Folk Art
"Art, especially the traditional arts, continually demonstrate the vital principle that sameness and differences ...
Source: National Endowment for the Arts
Additional Content
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Your Guide to Summer Arts Activities
Children love expressing themselves through the arts, and summer break provides a great opportunity for parents to add...
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Multiliteracy
For decades, key authors of journal articles and textbooks on the arts (e.g., artistic development, arts education) have...
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Art Connections: Seashell Mobiles
As you probably know, a mobile is a collection of hanging objects that move as the breeze blows through them. Think of...
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What Art Can Tell You About Your Child
There are new studies to suggest that the type of art your child prefers can tell you a lot about her personality.
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Top Ten Strategies for Technology in Music and Art Instruction
Take advantage of these ten powerful strategies for using technology to enhance the teaching of music and art. Music...
