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Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2012
Children are drawing inventors. Their art is certainly not what most adults think of as drawing. Almost instinctively, kids know that drawing is everywhere--that they can draw with almost anything, and that innumerable surfaces can be converted for art use. Teaching drawing is showing interest and enthusiasm for kids' drawing inventions--instead…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Art Materials, Art Activities
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2012
Children's inventions go far beyond track housing or Ethan Allen furniture; they foreshadow the most innovative ideas in building forms and interior designs. Children improvise with containers and find places in a home that suggest enticing dwellings. A drawer left open becomes a balcony, soap trays become cots, and the space between twin beds…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Architecture, Interior Design, Play
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2011
This article describes an art lesson that allows students to set up and collect sphere canvases. Spheres move art away from a rectangular canvas into a dimension that requires new planning and painting. From balls to many other spherical canvases that bounce, roll, float and fly, art experiences are envisioned by students. Even if adults recognize…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Activities, Art Expression, Art Materials
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2011
As hands-on environmental observers, children use printing to save and share "treasures" they find. In this article, the author shares thoughts which are based on observing what children find valuable and worth saving, and the printmaking processes used to "lift" images from their finds.
Descriptors: Art Activities, Studio Art, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2010
In an art class, children browse through space-age knobs, robot antennas and gyroscopic signal searchers. They extend space needle antennas before turning on an old TV. They discover the sights and sounds of televisions past, hearing the hiss, the gathering power, and seeing the blinking eye, the black-and-white light and blurry images projected…
Descriptors: Television, Studio Art, Art Activities, Childrens Art
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2010
As soon as they graduate from arm-length viewing in shopping-cart seats, children take off to adventure in aisles, touching just about everything. Kids will pocket fallen signs and lug unusual, empty shelves and packaging materials in hopes of taking them home. Kids recognize and compliment supermarket artists--stock clerks who create container…
Descriptors: Art Education, Artists, Art Activities, Creative Teaching
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2009
In this article, the author describes an art-class parade. In art-class parades, students set up scores of play figures, taking charge of customizing, choreography, casting and directing everyone. They create found-object floats and use instruments to accompany their parade. They empty their trunk of flashlights to light the videotaped event.…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cultural Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2009
Magic shows represent an authentic children's play turned into an art lesson. School art should accurately represent the unique qualities of children's art, incorporating children's experiences as young artists. An art lesson in school should not look and feel entirely different than art made outside of school. Unlike specialized adult art…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Play, Childrens Art
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2010
Foil can be shaped into almost anything--it is the all-purpose material for children's art. Foil is a unique drawing surface. It reflects, distorts and plays with light and imagery as young artists draw over it. Foil permits quick impressions of a model or object to be sketched. Foil allows artists to track their drawing moves, seeing the action…
Descriptors: Art Materials, Art Activities, Childrens Art, Sculpture
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2009
In school, the author sat next to Sandor the sculptor--when he was still undiscovered. He could take a pencil and, while seemingly listening in class, completely reshape the pencil by biting it. To detail his best pieces, Sandor would highlight the dents and gnashes with colored pens. Little did Sandor realize that his early efforts would be an…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Activities, Art Materials, Childrens Art
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2009
The best lesson ideas often derive from childhood recollections. When brought to class, play memories and art mementos from the teacher's childhood paint a powerful homage to children's art. A survey of a child's room in the dark, or with lights on, discloses interesting hanging sites, means of attachment and unusual items drafted for hanging, all…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Artists, Art Products
Szekely, George; Bucknam, Julie Alsip – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Art Teaching" speaks to a new generation of art teachers in a changing society and fresh art world. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle-school. Key sections focus on how children make art, why they make art, the unique…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Teachers

Szekely, George – School Arts, 1980
The author suggests concepts and activities in spatial awareness and interior design suitable for the elementary grades. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Elementary Education, Interior Design, Spatial Ability

Szekely, George – Art Education, 1988
Examines the use of an art exhibition to help students fully develop their potential as artists. Describes how students gain new insights into their work as they prepare it for exhibition. Discusses three programs which demonstrate the value of exhibitions to school children and includes pictures of student work. (GEA)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Exhibits

Szekely, George – Art Education, 1983
Through play, children draw ideas from their own experiences and create exciting works of art. Materials and methods that can be used in the classroom to help children play are described. (CS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials
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