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Packed full of exciting ideas and powerful visual aids, this book offers field-tested activities to help practitioners encourage and nurture young children’s creativity and imagination.
Starting from the Visual Arts
Starting from the Visual Arts
This chapter will give you ideas of ways to develop the visual arts by:
- Highlighting the importance of the visual arts.
- Offering practical solutions to common concerns.
- Illustrating two visual art activities each leading to an exploration of dance and music.
Exposure to the visual arts offers children the opportunity to explore the possibilities of two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations. If they are offered a wide range of activities and encouraged to use all their senses, children will be stimulated to express their emotions and ideas in a variety of ways. They will be given the opportunity to explore and begin to make sense of the world they live in and make connections in their life experiences.
Hopefully they will feel confident ...
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