CHD 120- Environments Project

1. Young Children and Art
By: Cheleena Neumann

2. Must haves for Art Station
• Two different methods of Painting: including finger painting, tempura painting,
and water colored paints. (3.1 pg.200 ECERS-R)
• Collage materials: includes paste/glue, various types of shaped and colored
paper, magazines, string, glitter, buttons, felt, feathers. Safe collage materials
cardboard tubes and egg cartons. 3-5 materials (3.1 pg.200 ECERS-R)

3. More must haves for Art Station
• Drawing Materials- including things to draw on like chalkboards, paper plates,
various sizes of paper. Also pens, felt tip markers, scribble crayons, and
chalk. 3-5 materials (3.1 pg.200 ECERS-R)
• Art tools- includes brushes, sponges, sticks, safe scissors, tape dispensers,
stencil’s, and rollers. 3-5 materials (3.1 pg.200 ECERS-R)
• 3-D materials for building- blocks, foam, cards, play-dough, and pipe
cleaners. 3-5 materials (3.1 pg.200 ECER-S)

4. Diversity in Art
• A diverse environment is a great way to ensure the growth of children, we can
do this by ensuring that our art center is filled with endless materials!
First,our center décor:
- have art from multiple different countries(ex. )
- put art in abnormal places(ex.Floor, ceiling, chairs)

5. What Skills Can Young Children Develop From
Daily Access to Art?
• Children can learn the importance of Self Expression (p.202, ECERS-R)
• Children learn fine motor skills
• Children learn to think outside of the box
• Children learn that art materials can be manipulated (Playdough, Clay, Glue,
beads, string, ect.)
• Children learn that art can be done on their time and not just when someone
asks them to do it

6. Teacher's Role
• Provide at least one hour a day in this center.
• Provide a creative environment.
• Offer certain art materials for kids to use, as long
as children can choose the topic of the work and
create what they wish.
• Basic subject matter and medium are suggested
by the teacher, but allowing the children to have
much room for individual expression.
Examples:
• Putting out two colors of
paint with paper.
• Asking the children to
make a Christmas tree
and allowing them to
use different methods to
get a Christmas tree;
painting, using markers
to draw, using play
dough.
• Children being asked to
draw pictures of their
family, individual
expression can be
given if they can choose
how to represent their
family in their own way.

7. Milestones For Art• Approaches to Learning Stand 3: Creativity and Inventiveness, C7 -
Uses imagination to create original thoughts, ideas, or products (p. 63)
• Teacher provides opportunities for child to experiment with safe art materials and to
create simple projects.
• Approaches to Learning Strand 3: Creativity and Inventiveness, C11-
Represent reality in a variety of ways (e.g. – Pretend play, drawing,
making up stories). ( p.64)
• Teacher can ask students to draw a picture of where they went on a field trip.
• Language and Literacy Strand 2: Phonological Awareness and
Alphabetic Knowledge, B13- Understand that letters of the alphabet
are a special category of visual graphic that can be individually
named. (p.75)
• Teacher can play letter games with child by pointing at things that begin with the
same letter

8. Milestones for Art Cont.
• Fine Arts, Strand 4 Visual Arts, D9 – Create drawings, paintings, models, and
other art creations that are more detailed, creative or realistic (p. 119)
• Teacher can encourage use of materials in the proper way like dabbing the
paintbrush to avoid dripping.
• Fine Arts, Strand 4 Visual Arts, D6 – Create art to express and represent what
they know, think, believe, or feel (p. 119)
• Teacher can encourage child to express feelings by painting to music.