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Schroeder, Liesa – School Arts, 1984
Working in small groups, fifth graders designed and made a ceramic title mural that became a permanent display in the school entryway. The project is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Ceramics, Childrens Art
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Johnson, Dana F. – School Arts, 1984
Too much stress on technical procedure in a ceramics class can inhibit elementary students' free inquiry. It should be remembered that ceramics is a form of visual art and that art is a form of expression. Teachers must help students express themselves. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Ceramics, Childrens Art
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Greger, Margaret – School Arts, 1985
A teacher or art specialist who would like to initiate kite activities will draw confidence from beginning with proven, class-tested designs, easy to make and decorate, sure to fly, using inexpensive materials. Instructions for making a Vietnamese kite and a stapled sled kite are provided. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products
Bader, Barbara – Horn Book Magazine, 1985
Describes Lenski's work as a reflection of artistic and social conventions of another era, then examines why they are still popular. (CRH)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Childrens Art, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing
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Downs, Linda – School Arts, 1984
The annual Detroit public school's art exhibitions, held for the past 46 years at the Detroit Institute of Arts, are part of a long and lively tradition of cooperation between the museum and the city schools. The program is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Terry, Mitchell – School Arts, 1984
Creating a collage can be an effective way to help elementary children develop good compositional habits, drawing skills, and confidence. Students first gather pictures and photographs and create a collage. They then create a work of art from the collage, by drawing and painting it. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Creative Art
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Smith, Peter; Riddler, Majory – School Arts, 1984
Techniques are presented to get children thinking about their body motions, thereby increasing the expressiveness of their drawings. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Creative Art
Borden, Rebecca – National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, 2004
From an educational perspective, involving students in school design provides a rich learning experience. Students must reflect on the world around them and develop practical solutions to everyday problems. Design-based activities make them think about the learning environment, prompting them to consider where and why they learn best. Such…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Educational Facilities Design, Problem Solving, Student Participation
Collado, Fatima Y. – 1999
This paper asserts the importance of allowing children to use their own perceptions in developing their imagination and drawing skills. It discusses why children draw, and how teachers can foster creativity, create appropriate activities, and evaluate the child's progress. Children draw to symbolically explore their worlds, and that by the age of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Child Development, Childrens Art, Creative Development
Sheridan, Susan Rich – 2002
This paper is concerned with the unfolding of human marks, beginning with scribbling, and their contribution to developing literacy. The paper argues that children's scribbles reveal a neural substrate destined for marks and influence that substrate significantly, cuing what is distinctly human in linguistic behavior and consciousness, or symbolic…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Brain, Children
Bauer, Caroline Feller – 2000
Third in the Mighty Easy Motivators series, this book is a hands-on guide to crafts for pre-school and grade school children to engage in during the literature program, after-school activities, or playtime. The programs in the book meet two objectives: introducing children to exciting new stories and poems and helping them create a story-related…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Art Activities, Childrens Art, Elementary Education
Khatena, Joe; Khatena, Nelly – 1999
This book is intended as a guide for parents, teachers, and others interested in developing creative art talent in young people. The book is based on the following assumptions: (1) being able to recognize and knowing how to identify creative individuals with special talent in art, guidance can be given to maximize the achievement of their…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Creative Development
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; Friedman, Sarah – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Results of this study suggest the feasibility of using concepts from studies of spoken language for experimental studies of graphic performance. (Authors)
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Data Analysis, Freehand Drawing, Nonverbal Communication
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Smith, Nancy R. – Art Education, 1983
Current beliefs about how children draw emphasize the importance of drawing from memory, rather than from observation. However, an experiment with children aged seven to nine showed that observation drawings included greater detail and complexity. More research on observation drawing is recommended. (IS)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Educational Research, Elementary Education
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McNiff, Karen – Journal of Education, 1982
Analysis of drawings by 26 children indicated striking contrasts in subject matter and style between girls and boys, but did not present stereotyped images of sex roles. The contrasts could not be specifically attributed to genetic, social, or psychological differences between the sexes. (MJL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Childhood Attitudes, Children
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