Central Idea: Artists can transform materials by using their imagination
Teaching for creative independence
*Give options for response
*Assign open-ended tasks
Here the Kinder students were working on a few things: cutting, tracing, drawing, gluing and arranging. They started with a printout that I made which had about 6 lines going from one side to the other. They also had paper cups they could trace onto colored paper and cut. After that, they had to decide how to arrange their composition. I loved it because they were expressing their personal ideas while experimenting with both materials and ideas (in collage you have to try different arrangements before you commit to gluing). They had complete control over the final product. I believe the practice of this type of art making can have a big impact on developing their creative independence. Notice how wonderfully different each piece is!
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