I have met some amazingly talented children during the first week of the holidays. I can recall spotting three of them in the 'time out' zone at their programme. These three children were placed there for basically not following staff instructions and asking 'why' during their adult initiated arts and crafts sessions.
When they were back in the programme, I observed them and quickly discovered some of their talent. Francois, aged 6, can draw amazing anatomically correct insects and animals, Michael, aged 9, can create these amazing cartoon caricatures – in a millisecond, and Levi, aged 10, loves and can create amazing geometric shapes and tessellation patterns, he used some shells for inspiration that I had brought along.
This got me to thinking about sharing an idea about 'uncolouring' in resources in your programme toolkits. Instead of your traditional photocopied pictures or colouring in books, these uncolouring in tools help to build children’s creativity and visualisation skills, and encourage imaginations to be used.
For example, instead of having a photocopied picture from Nemo, you would provide the children with a blank piece of paper, pencils, felts, rubber,water colour paints etc and a prompt such as 'You have found a carved wooden box while walking in the forest. Draw what you discovered when you opened the box' or 'You have just landed on planet Ooglieya. What do the aliens look like there?'
For the children who may not be used to this freedom, you can draw a prompt that they can develop, e.g. draw a piece of string and see what they create from that point.
Happy 'uncolouring' in everyone.
Julie
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