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1. Read "The Boy with Flowers in His Hair" and create their own portrait with their own things coming out of their head.

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1. Read "The Boy with Flowers in His Hair" and create their own portrait with their own things coming out of their head.

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With this activity, students have their own creative freedom to pick objects that come out of their heads like the little boy with flowers. All of the materials from the previous column will be at their disposal. This activity allows students to practice the 8 studio habits.

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This article describes how painting activities also help develop fine motor skills. As the students are having fun letting their imagination run free, the use of paint and application allows students to benefit in more than 1 way.

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In this article it describes collages as kids having to make choices, explore independence, social- emotional skills, and involving core subjects. Kids are able to use a variety of tools, media, and processes to create something they came up with on their own.

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Collage art projects are types of open-ended process art included in both the Experience Toddler and Experience Preschool curriculum. Process art supports the development of creativity.

Collages are a simple craft activity that involves gluing paper, recycled or natural items to paper.

Through creating collage art young children are encouraged to express themselves through their work and make choices without adult direction. There are many benefits to collage work including the fine motor skills toddlers and preschoolers practice, development of independence through practicing and repetition and making choices about their work.
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Practicing Fine Motor Skills

Young children need to practice their fine motor skills, which involves using small muscles that work with the brain and nervous system to control movements. Fine motor skills are necessary for everyday tasks, self-care and essential for handwriting. Children practice fine motor skills when they glue, stick, staple, cut or tear collage materials.

Exploring Independence

Collage art is an ideal time for young children to practice their independence while exploring art materials. When provided safe materials like paper, yarn, felt and leaves, children can do what they like with them. Children can squeeze glue, cut materials apart and arrange the pieces however decided on the paper. Adults don't need to guide, direct or correct the child. Children have a natural desire to touch and explore objects to learn about their world. The open-ended concept of collage work allows children time to concentrate and persist when challenged. There's no substitute for the pride and confidence developed when children "do it themselves"!

Making Choices

When gluing collage materials to a surface, children ma ke choices about what items they want to use. This may be based on colors the child likes, unique materials he may not have been exposed to before or a texture he enjoys, like sand. Children can choose to add more or less to their projects.

Learning and Growing with Collage Art

Children practice skills across the domains when they create collage art. Some skills children are developing through collage art include:

Social-Emotional

Self-Awareness: making choices about what materials are pleasing to them

Self-Regulation: learning to share materials or leave some for others, controlling the amount of glue they squeeze

Attention & Persistence: continuing to work on the collage from start to finish, persisting when tasks are difficult like squeezing glue, or getting an object to stick or cutting through a material

Social Relationships: sharing materials, working at the same table with others

Physical Development

Fine Motor: squeezing glue, picking up some small objects or thin pieces of paper

Safety: following safety rules, knowing how to use scissors correctly

Language & Literacy Development

Communication: with friends or educator

Writing: coloring or writing

Mathematics & Reasoning

Number Sense: counting of objects

Spatial Awareness: turning and placing objects and making decisions about the placement of collage materials

Shapes: using shapes to create a picture with collage materials

Measurement: estimating and cutting or placing materials

Logic & Reasoning: problem-solving and experimenting with supplies

Science
Natural & Earth Science: working with natural materials or actively collecting them for art

Social Studies
Culture & Community: cultural patterns, colors, fabrics may be used

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Benefits of Collage Art | Inspired Learning

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Collage art projects are types of open-ended process art included in both the Experience Toddler and Experience Preschool curriculum. Process art supports the development of creativity. Collages are a simple craft activity that involves gluing paper, recycled or natural items to paper. Through creating collage art young children are encouraged to express themselves through their [...]

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Another way to twist this lesson is to use nature. Students would have 10 minutes outside to collect their materials from outside to create things coming out of their head. They can add more details with the listed materials or just use nature.

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After students create their own creations, they will have time to reflect on their work using beginning, middle, end artful thinking routine. This allows them to reflect on their work and make up their own story like "The Boy with Flowers in His Hair".

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Choose one of these questions:

If this artwork is the beginning of a story, what might happen next?

If it this artwork is the middle of a story, what might have happened before? What might be about to happen?

If this artwork is the end of a story, what might the story be?

WHAT KIND OF THINKING DOES THIS ROUTINE ENCOURAGE? This routine uses the power of narrative to help students make observations and encourages them to use their imagination to elaborate on and extend their ideas. Its emphasis on storytelling also encourages students to look for connections, patterns, and meanings.

WHEN AND WHERE CAN IT BE USED? The routine works with any kind of visual art that stays still in time - such as painting or sculpture. Use Beginning, Middle, or End when you want students to develop their writing or storytelling skills. You can use the questions in the routine in the open-ended way they are written. Or, if you are connecting the artwork to a topic in the curriculum, you can link the questions to the topic. For example, if you are studying population density, you can ask students to keep the topic in mind when they imagine their stories. The routine is especially useful as a writing activity. To really deepen students' writing, you can use the Ten Times Two routine with the same artwork prior to using this routine as a way of helping students generate descriptive language to use in their stories.

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Beginning / Middle / End : Artful Thinking

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Choose one of these questions: If this artwork is the beginning of a story, what might happen next? If it this artwork is the middle of a story, what might have happened before? What might be about to happen? If this artwork is the end of a story, what might the story be?

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1.V.1 Use the language of visual arts to communicate effectively. 

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1.V.1 Use the language of visual arts to communicate effectively. 

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Understand characteristics of the Elements of Art, including
lines, shapes, colors, textures, form, and space.

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Can be added to make or add detail to their creation.

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They can use them to glue on their creation.

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Students can use sponges to dip in paint to make the things coming out of their head  or add to their background.

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Students can use this for stems or parts of the things coming out of their head.

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Students can create 3D things coming out of their head.

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Students can use glue to paste different materials.

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Students can draw the things coming out of their head.

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Students can draw the things coming out of their head and add details.

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Students can use these as the middles of their flowers or as a different type of flower.

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Students can use this as the middle of their flowers or add this as a background.

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Students can make their flowers out of this.

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Students can cut out the news paper or even crumple it up.

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Students can crumple this or cut it out.

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Students can paint the things coming out of their head with a brush, sponge, and many other objects.

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1.V.3 Create art using a variety of tools, media, and processes, safely and appropriately. 

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1.V.3 Create art using a variety of tools, media, and processes, safely and appropriately. 

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Use the processes of drawing, painting, weaving, printing,
stitchery, collage, mixed media, sculpture, and ceramics to
create art.

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- Color
- Texture
- Self-expression
- Lines
- Shapes
- Texture
- Space
- Creativity

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- What materials can I use to make my flowers?
- How many different materials can I use in my work?
- How can I make my work different from others?
- What if I make a flower I don't like, how can I fix it?