Process Art Workshop


The goal of this Process Art Workshop is to encourage children’s creativity through developmentally appropriate art experiences. Children learn from both process oriented art as well as product focused art activities. There are some benefits of process-focused art including:

  • Children's art is always unique and original because there is no model to follow
  • There is no right or wrong way to explore and create
  • The art is focused on the experiences and exploration of techniques, tools, and materials
  • The experience is relaxing
  • The experience builds confidence
  • Children naturally learn and develop
    through process art experiences


How Process Art Benefits Children

What children do and learn through process-focused art:


Social and emotional
Children relax, focus, feel successful, and can express their feelings


Language and literacy
Children may choose to discuss their art and add print to it (on their own or by dictating to an adult)


Cognitive
Children compare, predict, plan, and problem solve


Physical
Children use small motor skills to paint, draw, glue and make collages


Picasso wrote, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up.” Child art, like most child behavior, is direct and uncensored. A young child doesn’t critique his work – children paint freely and with pleasure, enjoying the fine and gross motor experience of moving paint over paper and watching lines, shapes, and colors come to life. Art puts a child in the “driver’s seat” and provides freedom: the freedom of choice, thought, and feeling.


Process art is all about the experience: how you feel as you experiment with your materials, the ideas that you get, and the opportunity to try new things. If the end result looks beautiful, consider that a bonus. But it is the doing, trying, thinking, and experimenting that is the main focus here.


There is a little artist inside every child - inside all of us, for that matter. All too often, the unique creative spirit in a child is dampened and they're told all the "should's" they must do instead. This workshop isn't about "should's". This workshop is about letting that creativeness that is unique to your child and your child only to absolutely soar!


Every

Child

is

An

Artist!