What is The Purpose of Art for Young Children?
Art is important to a child's developmental process. By experimenting with art, young children can express their ideas and feelings, develop motor coordination skills and learn about different types of materials and textures.
Interaction With Art MaterialsWith early learners, it is important to concentrate on the process instead of the product. Children can learn about colors, feelings and textures by experimenting with art materials.
Develop Motor Coordination SkillsBy interacting with art materials and creating their own works of art, children can develop hand-to-eye coordination and manual dexterity.
Express EmotionArt helps early learners to express their needs, wants and feelings.
Developing Comprehension SkillsBy looking at and creating works of art, children develop the idea of sequencing, which builds their comprehension skills.
Solving ProblemsChildren who are exposed to art-making activities develop higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills than children who do not have this exposure.
All colors of the rainbow
Great Science and Sensory Idea
Make a Rainbow
What you need:
-Shallow dish
-1 cup of whole milk
-Red, blue & yellow food coloring
-Liquid Dish Soap
What to do:
-Pour 1 cup of milk into the bowl.
-Add 3 drops of red food coloring to one edge of the bowl
-1/3 of the way away, add 3 drops of blue food coloring
- 1/3 of the way away add 3 drops of yellow don't mix or jiggle the bowl.
-Squeeze a drop of dish soap in the center of the bowl and watch what happens!
What happens: The dish soap does not mix with the milk. Instead it floats on top and spreads over the surface. As it spreads, it grabs the food color we dropped into it. Where the colors meet, they combine to form new colors.
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