The Artist Within Each Child
This month I’m blogging about “different ways of seeing.” This week we’re taking a look at kids’ art. On April 16th, as part of my A to Z posts relating terms from the arts to writing, I talked about the stages of a child’s understanding of art, culminating in the stage of “naming” – being able to tell a story about their scribbled art works. One of my real-life friends, who follows my blog and often emails with great insights on the blog topic of the day, emailed that day with wonderful stories from her time as a preschool teacher. With her permission, I’m sharing some of that email, along with photographs of a few of the paintings created by her small students.