The Art Area is always open during Work Time at Harmony's House. Some children won't choose to do art for themselves though, and so an art activity is periodically planned for Small Group so that everyone has regular opportunities to explore with paint, play-doh, glue, glitter, and more. Art is about developing creativity and so much more! The children pictured here in this photo document can be seen having a tremendous amount of focus and motor control. They are also choosing how they want to use the materials which is a form of self-expression. They also learn about cause and effect, science principles of color mixing, better/best material for the purpose, etc. What a way to build the brain!
Leprechaun Houses: we worked for a week to decorate these boxes and turn them into leprechaun houses for the purpose of catching a leprechaun!
Rainforest paintings:
Snakes from the Rainforest:
Work Time creations:
Friend "Sandwich" wanted to glue eyeballs, chose a paper plate, and put them on. He decided it looked like an owl! He was excited about that! Ms. Harmony showed him that there were feathers in the Art Area, and suggested that he might like to glue some feathers on his "owl." The orange feather is the bird's wings, and the pink feather is his nose.
Friend Sunflower loves to roll out, poke sequins in, and then dry play doh. She has made a few art sculptures like this one.
Friend Bread LOVES blue. Loves it! Her art method was to cut a white plate, draw on it with blue markers, string blue beads on blue fuzzy sticks, tape blue streamers onto the plate, and finally roll out blue play-doh to dry on top. She enjoys quite the complicated process in her art making!
