Rucci Barbara. Art Workshop for Children: How to Foster Original Thinking with more than 25 Process Art Experiences

Quarry Books, 2016. — 160 p. — ISBN13: 978-1631591433, 1631593250Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials.
As children work through these open-ended workshops, adults are guided on how to be guides who provide questions, encourage deep thinking, and help spark an excitement for discovery.
Explore basic materials and workshops that use minimal supplies, and then gradually add new materials to fill the art cabinets as well as new skills and more complex workshops.
Interspersed throughout are sidebar essays that introduce perspectives on mess-making, imperfection, the role of adult, collaborative art, and thoughts on the Reggio Emilia method, a self-guided teaching philosophy.
These pieces underscore the value of art-making with children, and support the parent/teacher/care-giver on how to successfully lead, question, and navigate their children through the workshops to result in the fullest experiences.Introduction: We Are All Artists
How to begin
Creative Invitations
What Is Process Art?
Learning Skills
How to Use this Book
Creating Your Art Space
Tips and Rules
Gathering Materials
Workshops // Beginning
Simple Frame Paintings
Muffin Tin Prints
Watercolor and Crayon Resist
Cotton Swab Mini Watercolors
Watercolor Lacing Cards
Self-Portraits
Paper Bag Collage Painting
Still Life with Doughnut
Mix Your Own Paint Colors
Workshops // More to Explore
Gathering Materials: More Art Supplies
Fold and Paint Paper
Plastic Bag Monoprints
Triangle Shapes Assemblage
Muffin Tin Prints Collage
Neon Ruler Paintings
Cereal Box Painting
Plexiglass Monoprints
Workshops // Art with a Purpose
Gathering Materials: Recyclables
Cardboard Collage Faces
Wooden Bead Mobile
Milk Carton Houses
Heart Hangers
Mini Canvas Paintings
Recycled Robots
Workshops // Collaboration
Branch Painting
Collaborative Table Painting
Paper Roll Tree
Art City
Cardboard Cake
Making art visible
Displaying Your Child’s Art
About the authors