Part 1. Journey to Discovery

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To a young child, exploring through play is simply natural. Children collect knowledge and gain a sense of their physical world through their senses of seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, and hearing. The excitement a child experiences while dipping a brush in paint and creating strokes of colour is a curious mixture of the senses! Visual art exploration is a natural way for children to explore and learn and it can come in many forms: doodling, painting, colour, sculpting, crafting, and many other visual art forms.

Many books have been written on the subject of teaching visual arts to children, which use traditional fine art to facilitate lessons. This s not that type of book. Here, I offer a new way of teaching visual arts. This new way of thinking will open your eyes to a child’s natural creative abilities. The Nature of Art For Kids® Methodology and proven method is based on these ideas: 1) Freely allowing a child to use intuitive thinking while making art, 2) Allowing ideas and creative expression to develop with abilities appropriate to each child’s developmental stage, 3) Not disturbing the curious evolution a child undergoes while exploring, and 4) Not burdening a child with adult ideology about how to be creative.

Part one of this book will take you through the journey how I came to the conclusion young children should learn visual arts naturally, part two will explain why and how to nurture visual arts.

Why should visual arts be part of a young child’s life? Making art is a natural way to communicate. Emotions can be expressed during the process of making art or the final message in artwork. From a beginning idea to a completed art project, the process is good for a child to experience. Visual Arts is a great way to explore a child’s creativity. Our physical earth and daily life is a bounty of colorus and light, art is a great way to explore colour. Art making provides limitless colour and form. Making art is a great way a child can develop fine motor skills. Visual Arts can bridge a child to the natural world. Visual Arts in a young child’s life can be positive for healthy growth.

Contents

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Part 1. Journey to Discovery

Chapter 1. Introductions: Who I am & Why The Book

Chapter 2. My Observations Lead To Method

Chapter 3. Child, Visual Arts & Artist, Three Special Terms You Must Know!

Chapter 4. Fine Art Instruction: Where It Came From & Why We Teach This Way

Chapter 5. Fine Art All Wrong For Kids: Nurturing Method Emerges

Chapter 6. Experts, Non Experts Today On childhood Visual Art Learning

Chapter 7. Elex’s Drawing Story

Chapter 8. Elex’s Story Brings: Revelations, Discoveries to Natural Patterns

Chapter 9. Elex’s Story Identifying Creative Mode Artwork vs. Copy Mode Artwork

Part 2. Freeing The Imagination

Chapter 10. Methodology, Principals, Phases & Parts To The Method

Chapter 11. Cognitive “Mind/Brain” & Fine Motor Growth

Chapter 12. Visual Perception, Connecting visual growth to how we learn to draw

Chapter 13. Nurture The Naturalistic Child

Chapter 14. The 3 C’s Curiosity, Creativity & Child-Led

Chapter 15. 3 Phases of Development

Chapter 16. Buying Art Supplies

Chapter 17. Art Supply Safety & Non-Toxic Truths

Chapter 18. Colour Theory

Chapter 19. Art Therapy, Art Helps Children Communicate Simpler

Chapter 20. Digital Multi-Media Arts For Children

Chapter 21. Art Topics

Chapter 22. The End Of The Rainbow, Conclusion

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