This document discusses materials, tools, skills, and milestones related to art for children of different ages. It provides examples of appropriate art materials for infants/toddlers like thick crayons and notes materials should not resemble food. A variety of drawing, painting, collage, and 3D materials should be available. Tools include hands, brushes, scissors. Art encourages development of fine motor skills and creative expression while allowing children to learn shapes, colors, and patterns. Cultural art projects can teach diversity. Milestones include using creativity, pretending, drawing, and creating patterns.

1. ART CENTER
Tynesha Day
June 25, 2017
Environments Project

2. MATERIALS
• Art Materials refer to the basic substance or ingredients with Visual Representation,
Crayons, Markers, Paint, Playdough
• Art materials vary for different ages- infant toddler materials should not resemble
any food nor smell of it
• No glitter
• Children with special needs art materials are more textured, hands on materials
• In every art center there should be enough supplies for the entire class to
participate if the children chose to.

3. Drawing Material- items the child will hold in their hand, example Thick crayons for
younger infant/ toddler
Thin crayons for older children, Water color markers, chalk
Paint- tempera, water color non-toxic

4. Collage is gluing smaller pieces to larger flat
piece small paper shapes the children self-stick
stickers, pictures to cut out.
Three dimensional materials- paly dough
wooding gluing

5. Tools are the aids used in manipulating or controlling
art materials. Primary the child hands
Other tools- brushes to spread the paint , blunt
scissors for older children ages 3 and up, to cut paper.
Glue sticks or other ways of applying glue to hold
things together

6. DIVERSITY IN ART
• Diversity is shown in the project itself
• Cultural art projects allow children to see things from different places in the world,
while also learning about different heritages

7. SKILLS LEARNED
• Art encourages the development of variety of skills:
• Practice fine motor skills, allows kids to experiment with shapes, colors, lines space
• Art is like science and math
• Art provides opportunity to strengthens, hand coordination needed for writing
• Experiences with symbols
• Learning about form, symmetry, balance and design
• Shapes and patterns
• Infant/ Toddler- Early art experience is practice for eye, hand coordination
• Art allows kids to develop their own creative expression
• Older children show how they see things

8. MILESTONES
• Approach's to learning : Strand 3 creativity and inventiveness
• Indicator C9, Use creativity and inventiveness to complete project sort asks.
Examples
• Use a variety of approaches in creating block structures or artistic projects.
• Do usual thing sin unusual ways(e.g., help with cleanup by collecting toys in a truck
and wheeling them to the shelf).
Strategies
• Avoiding evaluating, grading, or judging creative products; avoiding competitions.
• Using open-ended questions and descriptive language when interacting with child
to encourage creative thinking

9. INDICATOR C11 (MILESTONES PAGE, 64)
Examples:
• Represent reality in a variety of ways(e.g., pretend play, drawing, making up stories).
• Substitute objects to represent something else during in dramatic play(e.g., use a banana as a
telephone or block as a truck).
• Play-act the role of an admired adult(teacher, crane operator)or favorite fictional character.
• Use crayons or markers to draw pictures representing the fieldtrip to an apple orchard.
Strategies:
• Playing make-believe games with child, including games that introduce the child to diverse
people, places, and cultures(e.g., "Can we pretend we are walking through a hot jungle?”).
• Providing opportunities for child to differentiate between make-believe and reality.
• Providing enjoyable experiences that stimulate the desire to hold on to the memory and “re-
present” it

10. LANGUAGE AND LITERACY: STRAND 5
EARLY WRITING PAGE 80-81
• Indicator E1- E 8
E1: Begin to show interest in writing tools
Example
Grasp a crayon and bring it to mouth
Strategies
Supervising child’s exploration of child-safe writing tools

11. COGNITION AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE STRAND 1:
LEARNING ABOUT MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS C. PATTERNS
AND RELATIONSHIPS C11 (MILESTONES PAGE 90)
Indicator
• .Create original patterns using a variety of materials according to one or more
attributes(e.g., color ,size ,shape).
Examples
• Make patterns in the sand with her fingers and tracks with toy cars.
• Construct a symmetrical design with pattern blocks.
Strategies
• Building on the child’s understanding of patterning by making changes and
additions in materials(e.g. Varying the number of objects, the types of
characteristics, and the degree of variation).

12. The teachers role during Arts and crafts is to guide the children along the way but
allowing them to produce their very own vision