Early childhood education is key to lifelong success. The document discusses developing writing and motor skills in young children. Activities like moulding, cutting, and patchwork help build manual dexterity and develop gestures. Children first make random marks that become more precise signs and images through practice. Art activities involving visual art, music, and dance engage children's senses and strengthen abilities. The goal is for children to do visual and manual exercises and reproduce forms respecting graphic space. Described are activities using techniques by Sol Lewitt and from a Bruno Munari book to creatively color and paint with unusual materials.

1. European Development
of the early childhood education is
the key to success in life
ERASMUS+ 2015 - 2017

2. ISTITUTO ISA 13
SARZANA
ITALY

3. Writing is first of all a motor learning skill
and the aquisition of this practise is
particularly complex, for this reason we use
in particular manual ability that will be able
to develop through experiences of
moulding, cutting and pacthwork and
exercises of dissociation at the level of the
hand and the fingers. Through the repitition
of gestures and movement of the hand and
the body we obtain the sign.

4. At the beginning the signs are obtained
and marked on a paper in a casual way,
subsequently experimenting and
improving the movement and the
technique used the child tries to repeat
more and more that sign up to the
point of a phase in which he projects
the graphic representations of signs and
precise images.

5. Through game activities we have
tried to involve and getting small
children close to art. Art in its more
different forms (visual art, music,
dance, theatre…), gets involved all
the child’s senses and gets his
thinking, socio affective and sensorial
abilities stronger.

6. OBJECTIVES
Being able to do visual and manual
exercises
Being able to reproduce graphically
forms and signs respecting the limits of
the graphic space

7. The project starts with 3 years
old children with whom we
experimented the technique
by Sol Lewitt (pictures by Sol
Lewitt’s activities). Small
children have coloured in a self
sufficient, personal and
creative way: vertical and
horizontal lines with unusual
material.

8. Sol Lewitt’s Activities

9. The 4 and 5 years old children
have made a very creative sun
that they have found in a Bruno
Munari’s book, always using
unusual techniques. During the
activities small children have
played with different graduation
of colours and they have started a
painting and artistic research
feeling deep emotions. (pictures
by Bruno Munari’s Activities).

10. Bruno Munari’s Activities

11. THANK YOU
VERY MUCH
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION

12. ISTITUTO ISA 13
SARZANA
ITALY