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creativity
At the children's studio for visual art children are free to explore and create at their own pace. We have a variety of materials available. We offer natural materials, recycled materials and purchased materials to create with.
We aim to offer freedom of choice, and have no set expectiations of what the finished piece of art should look like. There are no instructions to follow, only advice on technique or proper use of tools. Art experiences should be joyful, challenging and messy!
We have only one basic rule: respect our environment and materials.
If you have a surplus of newspaper, egg containers, bottle tops, wire or small boxes (clean and hygenic please) we would love to have them, you never know what the children might be able to create with it!
What causes creativity?
Confidence: the ability to question without fear
Observation: seeing problems and ideas
Humility: knowing you don't know everything
Mindfulness: thinking on how to think
Curiosity: exploring and experimenting
Resourcefulness: something to tinker with
Energy: to explore and tinker
Action: not just thinking, but doing
To foster children's sense of creativity and active desire to create and explore through the arts, adults need to be prepared to let children explore at their own speed and desire from a very young age. Children who are unfamiliar with free art exploration and are conditioned to follow instructions and fill in blanks on a colouring page can loose the freedom of spirit required to be creatively adventurous and successful with artistic pursuits later on in life. Four year olds who already say "I can't draw!" have clearly been exposed to too many adult directed and structured art/craft activities, where the only successful outcome was to duplicate adult work.
If you wish for your child to "learn to draw" then you need to let them first feel successful in their own abilities. You need to celebrate a page full of scribbles, a blue horse or a person with no body but arms and a head. For these are expressions of the child's world view, and current skill. It is so tempting for adults to 'correct' the childs artwork by telling them that a person needs to have a body and legs as well and that a horse is NOT blue. But if you do that you disrespect the child's creative expression and intent. It takes patience, time, and carefully posed questions to listen to childrens purpose, find out their intent and learn about their experiences of this world, but the creative results are well worth it. Because in creative art there is no wrong way, there are just things that work better to achieve a desired outcome, and things that don't work so well.
Before children can learn the technique and skills for realistic drawing they need to be allowed to celebrate less realistic but very creative process art and exploration. Through this children become passionate and enthusiastic about art and develop the persistence and interest to learn more about technique.
The interest to learn more should always be child initiated to be continuous, meaningful and deep.
