I don't often let my kids paint. I think that is rather sad because I LOVE it when they do it but I am rather fatiqued by cleaning the house and this just adds to it. We had a teacher work day so my husband went in but both my sons did not have school. We also had the babysittie over so needless to say we needed something unusual to keep everyone in a good place. They did enjoy themselves!
I like watching the intensity of a young one using paints. She was very focused and really seemed to be making it look a certain way. (She just turned two.)
My sons, 7 and 4 years seemed more into the textual quality of the paint and the physical action of painting. The 4 year old made 'roads' and 'snakes' with his brush. The 7 year old used a technique he learned in his 1st grade art class where you paint over a cut out (the heart) and lift it up and you have made a stencil.
The baby will be two in a few months and liked many aspects of painting...hopefully none got in her mouth!
I do understand why most art programs in pre-schools focus on the product 'looking good' but I do hate the look that the projects have. There is no freedom to create because everyone must have the same thing, the same tree painted the same colors, the same snowflake with the same glitter. This is my main complaint about the pre-school my son attends. I call it canned art and if your child does this at school please give him or her an opportunities to create without many boundaries at home. When my eldest son went to his first week there (when he was 4) they were painting trees that had been lightly pre-drawn by staff and given green and brown paint. He refused to paint because of the restrictions. He did not give a hoot really about what he was directed to create..and wanted some purple paint! We talked to him later about how the teachers likely wanted to only have a few things of paint out and asked him to participate but I still respect his drive to create under his own vision.
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