Teaching Mixed Media to Children - Hardcover

Cikanova, Karla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9766410046 ISBN 13: 9789766410049

Publisher: Craftsman House, 1995

Synopsis

This new book on art and creativity for children is a sequel to Karla Cikanova's imaginative series of publications on painting and drawing. Focusing on activities suitable for eight- to twelve-year old children, Teaching Mixed Media to Children deals with spatial creativity and demonstrates that activities like drawing, painting and collage cannot really be separated. The author introduces children, through play, to the idea of shape - its surface, construction and place in space. She then relates spatial creative thought to easily available materials for application in mixed media and provides suggestions for the expression of concrete shapes and structures - both animate and inanimate. Children can try their hand at creating paper toys; designing houses, towers and castles; and producing fantastic animals and masks... there are many ways of encouraging creativity and stimulating the imagination.
Teaching Mixed Media to Children has been arranged especially for adults who are involved with the art education of children - teachers, educationalists and parents.

About this title

Synopsis:

Focusing on activities suitable for eight - to 12 year old children, this work deals with special creativity and demonstrates that activities like drawing, painting and collage cannot be separated. The author introduces children, through play, to the idea of shape - its surface, construction and place in space. She then relates spatial creative thought to easily available materials for application in mixed media and provides suggestions for the expression of concrete shapes and structures - both animate and inanimate. Children can try their hand at creating paper toys; designing houses, towers and castles; and producing fantastic animals and masks among others, highlighting the many ways of encouraging creativity and stimulating the imagination. The book has been arranged especially for adults who are involved with the art education of children - teachers, educationalists and parents.

Chapters include: spatial creativity and simple methods of using paper, plastic modelling clay, plasticine, string and small pieces of wood; contact with nature - recognition, experience and memory; how nature modelled us - understanding the human form; ordinary things - discovering wonder in the everyday world; people's homes - different types of shelter - from houses and apartments to tents, igloos and castles.

About the Author:

Karla Cikanova is a teacher of art at the primary school in Londynska Street in Prague.

About this edition

• Publisher: Craftsman House
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 9766410046
• ISBN 13: 9789766410049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128