2 ways to give kids great art

2 of the best ways to do Art with kids

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A fairly standard way to do art with kids is to do whatt I call copycat arts and crafts like the image

Below from a workshop I did with teachers

The best way to make something like trees is to Prepare different size trees for the children to choose from

You would then prepare all kinds of materials for themTo use in creating their trees on top of the trunks

Below are some of the results from a workshop I didFor teachers using this method

If you want to do something particular like a fall scene, then its

Also good to give pictures for inspiration and the right colors

To depict that scene you want to show

Is it not more to creative not to make a flower like this oneWhich is very typical

And instead to do flowers like these that encourageCreativity

And thinking skills

If you really want to do crafts with kids as opposed

To doing more creative, free style art

Then there is a way to do so

There are 5 categories of what I call Educational Crafts

The first category is cafeteria styleThis is when the children get to choose cafeteria style

The different materials they are going to use to Decorate their projects. Like the tree pictures before

The second category is when you use a template and have The children do any kind of painting or process only art on

This template

The third category is to make decorations

The fourth is to take an object and transform it into a work of art

Using any number of techniques, like mosaics or decoupage

The fifth is the final category and you can use any

Number of process only art activities to create art and then

To make them into either things like card, wrapping paper

or framed pieces of artwork.

I hope this short presentation has inspired you

To go out and do some great art with your children

Or students

Faige Kobrewww.eduart4kids.com