Wonder art workshop : creative child-led experiences for nurturing imagination, curiosity, and a love of learning / Sally Haughey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haughey, Sally, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handicraft for children.

Creative activities and seat work.

Imagination.

Curiosity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 161 pages) : colour illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Massachusetts : Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Wonder Art Workshop, educator and educational development expert Sally Haughey shares her approach to hands-on, play-based learning with parents, teachers, and other facilitators, offering 25 activities that let your child take the lead in developing their own sense of intrinsic motivation to imagine, experiment, and discover. The author's wonder-based approach reflects and synthesizes several child-centered educational movements, including Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, and Montessori. Become a catalyst for cultivating your child's curious mind through these steps and activities, which start with art and apply to other subjects, including science and literacy: Take stock for your wonder journey with helpful guidance on collecting materials, preparing a space, and nurturing the process while allowing children to make independent choices. Harness curiosity through a collection of sensory-based activities that use a variety of loose parts and other creative materials for open-ended play. Encourage experimentation by unleashing your child's inner alchemist with "potion trays" they can use to mix color, create fizzing concoctions, make play dough, and more. Unlock literacy play with activities that inspire children to imagine and create their own characters, structures, and landscapes. Give your children the precious gifts of wonder and curiosity and help them become the best they can be with Wonder Art Workshop. -- publisher website.

Contents:

1: Taking stock for the wonder journey

Why wonder-based art?

How to use this book

The wonder-based art process

2: Preparing your wonder-based art space

Setting up for wonder-based art

Essential wonder-based art materials

3 Watching for wonder

Following the verb: how to see children's interest

How to harness curiosity: schemas in children's play

Art materials: a few tips

4: Building wonderlands

Every child has a story: unlocking literacy play

Wonder art tool: gel medium

5: Noticing wonder

Who's doing the thinking? the power of open-ended materials

Wonder art tools: loose Parts

6: Stirring up wonder

Unleashing the Alchemist: how to inspire children's experimentation

How to set up potion trays

Wonder art tools: pipettes, eyedroppers and syringes.

ISBN:

9781631597749

1631597744

OCLC:

1121141512