Chapter 5: Ways and Means: Constructing Your Own Arts Activities

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• The Visual Arts

  The visual arts range from drawing, painting, and sculpture to combinations such as collage and assemblage. They have been used for...
• Drawing

  Drawing is a good way to slow children down to really look at something. Simpler drawing techniques are best because children will have...
• Painting

  Painting can be a deep process and that bring up a child's inner life, encouraging engagement with the materials and stimulating the...
• Combination activities

  Subtractive process: revealing something Add crayon markings to heavy paper, then cover with them thick black paint. When the pain has...
• Materials

  Surfaces: See surfaces for drawing (above). More expensive papers such as watercolor paper, Bristol board, and canvas-covered cardboard can...
• Printing

  Printing is a stylized form of painting. Although it is less spontaneous process, printing's repeated patterns and design elements can be...
• Cloth and fiber arts

  Framing the experience: Cloth and other fibers are excellent materials. Cloth can be woven, stamped on, ripped into strips and braided, and...