This session will examine specifically how to support your young children as they move from exploration and investigation of materials/resources to a point of thinking and expressing creatively and critically with them. You will come to know how to observe and support their progression in learning through the visual expressive arts and design, and how to enrich their skills and reasoning, their imagination and possibility thinking in exploration and investigations of ideas in mediums such as different kinds of paint, drawing media, sculptural materials, wire, found objects and loose parts including the use and combination of technology and digital media in creative and communicative ways. You will leave feeling confident to construct playful situations of creative and expressive learning that considers the interplay of using open-ended and ‘intelligent materials’ as well as thinking about the choices we can make in presenting and curating materials and tools that widen the possibilities for your children’s expression and communication of their ideas, feelings, thoughts and theories of the world.
Essential questions for the session:
- How can you recognise, support and build on young children’s creativity and critical thinking through the visual arts with your children?
- What are the playful learning contexts that you can design in your settings using creative enquiry and the considered curation of materials and resources?
- How can you use ‘intelligent materials’ to develop your children’s ability for creative possibility thinking and their expression of ideas, thoughts, emotions and experiences?
- How can the arts and creativity help your children to construct knowledge and understanding whilst developing their language, communication, and vocabulary?
Suitable for: Members working in early years
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