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Fun Discipline Based Arts Education Activities
© Colleen Madonna Williams
Aug 20, 2000
Instilling a love of the Visual Arts within your child may sound like a daunting task. It does not have to be! The world is full of opportunities for families to view, discuss, and enjoy the Visual Arts together. Try some of these fun activities with your child or children this week!
Use construction paper to cut out sets of the following Art tabs; green dollars, red hearts, yellow light bulbs, and blue houses. Make a set for each member of your family. With your tabs in hand venture out to the closest Art museum or Art gallery.
Tell everyone to wander around viewing the various works of Art. (If your children are smaller, do this in a group.) Choose your favorite work of Art in the museum or gallery and write its name on your heart. Smaller children can just indicate this verbally by waving the heart in front of their favorite work of Art. Next, look for what you think is the most expensive work of Art. Write its name on your dollar. The yellow light bulbs should be used to record the name of the Artwork that you think conveys the biggest idea. (Maybe its speaks of women's rights, breast cancer, or prejudice.) The blue houses should be used to record the name of the Artwork that you would most like to see hanging in your own home. This may or may not be the same as your overall favorite piece. Now, discuss the choices you made. Give everyone a chance to explain what they chose and why. Try to find out who chose the most expensive piece of Art correctly. Ask what your children think makes that piece of Art so valuable. Discuss your favorite pieces. What do you like about them? How did you choose your big idea pieces? What do you think the artist was trying to say? Why did you choose a particular piece of Art as the piece you would like to have at home? Look at a famous Artwork and draw, paint, or sculpt your own version of it. Do this as a family project. Let everyone contribute something to the piece. Write a fun caption to go along with it that includes what you think the artist that you mimicked would say about your family masterpiece. Go to the library and check out a book on a famous artist. Read about his/her life and work. Learn how he/she worked and lived. Discuss what changes have taken place in art techniques and other technologies since the time of this artist.
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This is such a wonderful idea colleen. I can even have the older kids do the same thing with a more difficult task. Maybe have them curl the paper and crease it in different ways to make different t
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-- posted by Donnalovesart
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Donna, look at sculptures of all sorts and discuss them- you know the drill smile- then show your 4-6 year olds how to fold paper strips into circles, squares, triangles, etc. Glue these together ont
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-- posted by colleenmwilliams
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Colleen, my biggest problem in teaching art is coming up with things for children age 4-6. I managed for a year, but I want something new. I've done paper mache clown heads, pinch pots, tempra paint
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-- posted by Donnalovesart
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Renee, I am glad that you feel that way. Art is a universal language- children should be taught to understand and "speak" it. I'll be checking out your site soon! Love your signature bug!
Colleen
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-- posted by colleenmwilliams
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Great suggestions, Colleen. Art really should be part of children's lives. When my children were small, we visited museums regularly, and talked about the art we saw there. Art should be a part of
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-- posted by Renie_Burghardt
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