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Art with Toddlers |
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To introduce Wiley to painting, I gave him a jar of water, a brush and a wooden board. He first took delight in dipping the brush in water and feeling the bristles between his fingers. Eventually he tried painting the board.
Click on this picture for Susan Striker's excellent page on art for children. |
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Water Painting -- all right so the squiggles on the board were painted by me. I broke my cardinal rule of not influencing the flow of my boy's creativity, but it makes a nice picture and I let my impatience get the better of me. |
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Then I placed a plate of flour paste before Wiley. This is great for fingerpainting, but Wiley is not a big fan of gooey, sticky stuff on his hands -- as he says, "Ooh, yucky gross."
Here is a recipe: SIMPLE PASTE Yield: 1 Batch 1/2 c flour
6 tb Water
Add the water to the flour and mix. That's all.
Recipe from King Arthur's 200th Anniversary Cookbook. |
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With the paste Wiley is glueing strips of fabric to a piece of paper. |
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When Wiley started doing collages he was more interested in sticking all the yarn in the glue than putting the yarn on the paper. I let him do what he wants. Eventually he tries something new. It is important to me that it is his way and not the way that someone shows him. |
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Painting in the bathtub with cornstarch paint eventually washes off the walls and tub (even when just using vinegar and baking soda). Check out this link for Nancy Blakey's site. Here is a recipe: FINGER PAINT (IOWA CHURCH COOKBOOK)
Yield: 1 Recipe
1/3 c Cornstarch
3 tb Sugar
2 c Cold Water
Food Coloring
1. Mix Cornstarch, sugar and water in a 1 qt.
saucepan. 2. Cook and stir over medium heat about 5
minutes or until thickened; remove from heat. 3.
Divide the mixture into separate cups or containers.
Tint mixture in each container with a different color.
Stir several times until cool. Store in airtight
container. Works best if you use the paint the same
day you make it. Martelle Christian Church
Cookbook/Iowa |
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There is a strong link between early drawing development and reading and writing. Today Wiley was drawing shapes and identifying them as letters. This is one of the first times that Emet spent more time drawing than tasting the chalk. |
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Here are two drawings that were done on the same day. The one on the left is the swirls that Wiley had been doing for the last few months. The one on the right is the first drawing that Wiley uses dots and hatched lines. I was very excited to witness the dramatic change. Another big rule of mine, which I gleaned from reading Susan Striker's Young at Art, is not drawing on Wiley's art. I do this to respect his creation and also because I want him to draw from his own perception, not from my perception of how a tree or a person looks. Of course, the first thing he is drawing is cars. |
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