Reading assignment

YOUNG IN ART A DEVELOPMENT LOOK AT CHILD ART - CRAIG ROLAND 190, 2006

There arre 4 stages of children's artistic development:
Scribbling, pre-symbolism, symbolism and realism - more can be said the children are just beginning to discover the joy of mark making.

It begins with Scribbling
All young children take great pleasure and pure enjoyment in scribbling - age, one and a half years of age.
Method :
- moving arms and making marks on the surface,
- random fashion by swinging their arms back and froth across the surface,
- later will begin to control by varying their motion
- repeating certain lines that give them particular pleasure.
- Longitudinal marks in one or 2 directions.
- circular patterns and geometric shapes (showing their preceptual and motor abilities increaseing)
- Lines + shpes forming various patterns and designs.
- The child's name may appear among the marks on the page.
- when he/she gain control of the marks on the page, they will start to name their scribbles, and engage in imaginative play when drawing (eg. this is mommy, this is my doll).
It seems like the unreadable drawings seems at this moment having meaning.

Materials:
- Dark crayons colours, non-toxic markers, ballpoint pens and pencils, tempera paint (thick)
- Absorbent sheet of paper 18x24 inches or A4

Give:
. encouragement to the children to engage in scribbling
. comment the movements - the fast movement or how big it is
. listen to the child's comments
. use the meanings offered by the child as a source for dialogue.
eg.
- If this is daddy, is your daddy tall?
- Does he pick you up?
- where do you go with daddy on the weekend?
- shopping - Do you like to go shopping with daddy?

. encourage him/her to verbalise his/her toughts, feelings and experiences
. show that you value what he/she has done
. praise - it will help the children to be enthusiastice and be imaginative.

(to be continued - Pre-symbolism)