Both my Snow White and Cinderella attends a childcare centre since I am a working mum. I do not wish to overburden my domestic helper too as she needs to take care of my baby. So with the 2 older kids in school, my domestic helper is really relieved that her job is not so demanding. Back to my kid's school, as part of the curriculum, my kids would have Art lessons, though not necessarily drawing and colouring/painting all the time. Sometimes, I heard my child telling me that she and her classmates are playing with play dough. Another form of Art! In the beginning, when she was 3 years old, Snow White would bring home lots of Art pieces done using fingers--I mean -Finger Painting .
Neat Pieces of Art Drawings
I was really impressed to see nice and neat pieces of work from Snow White's childcare centre. I have also learned a trick or two when comes to painting. Just let our kids draw and colour, never mind that it is messy because we can always cut out the figure or object and paste it onto a nice background. Then we can frame it up if we want to. Here it is :
National Day flag whereby the kids would paint the background using their palms and the teachers helped to paste the symbols and then cut out a triangular shape for the flag. The kids would use this flag on National Day Celebrations and then bring it home for keeping after that.
A tie for Daddy. As you can see, the orange background was done with pupils using using their hands or rather palms to paint, the teacher would cut out the shape. This time, Snow White had to paint the decorative items on the tie. Still the teacher cut out the orange background into a shape of a tie to be given on Father's Day to Daddy. Indeed, the teacher asked Snow White some questions, made the kids create a card by painting dots and recorded the reponses on the card. All these--a card and a tie --make the greatest present for my husband. Take a look at the card and the responses by Snow White :
The responses made by Snow White.
In the next 2 pictures, you will see a few pages of a story book created for the kids based on the story 'Rainbow Fish'. (It is actually 6 pages of sketch book size papers stapled together to form a book.
Behind each page, the teacher would write a paragraph related to it .
In the first picture below, you can see progression in her colouring. Later, the teacher made the kids paint a blue background for the ocean and then cut out shapes of fishes and let the kids decorate the bodies. What a clever idea, it really gives the kids a sense of ownership. My child came home very excited and proudly declared that she had made all these herself.
Colouring of 'The Rainbow Fish'. (I can see that Snow White was trying to make the fish colourful as the story is about a Rainbow fish and rainbows are colourful.)
