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Why color sheets and/or craft projects,
using models, hurts the creative expression
Art should be a creative experience in which children initiate the
activity, select their own materials and make whatever inspires them.
The frustration involved in working to someone else's standards, the
infringement on spontaneous choice and the intrusion of teacher plans
into children's tasks are also negatives.
The teacher's role in this activity should be to offer a variety of
materials, model a variety of age appropriate techniques and discuss
ideas with the children. SOURCE: (Developmentally Appropriate
Practice, p.257, Second edition)
Teaching Concepts
Pointing concepts, such as color and letters, through games and in
stories that are age appropriate would reinforce them to the children.
Cutting out letters, as an activity, would set the preschool age
children up for failure because they do not have the manual dexterity
at this age to master this task.
Instead, let them cut out magazines and newspapers that do not have
defined shape to cut. They will enjoy learning new concepts and skills
when they are in control of the pace at which they can learn them.
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