Drawing follow up?

[WarblerOn]

Your Assignment Module Number and Heading: CHC30013 Diploma stage 2 workplacement: Physical or Creative experience
Your Assignment Type: Standard Question
Currently Working in Childcare? No
Your knowledge: Advanced Knowledge

Your Question?
My focus child loves drawing. I've observed her draw a lot, and in my fine motor observation I've talked about her drawings and her visual perception skills like for example there is a pumpkin on the wall, she will look at the pumpkin and draw it based on what she can see even though it's right across the room. She described a lot of animals from an elephant to a flamigo (I was having trouble writing them down so I could remember) even described a lion "with claws and grrrrr," she made the face and claws which made me laugh.

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Anyway.... I want to come up with a plan based on her drawings. I really want to do a drawing plan; but putting out pencils sounds so....easy? I have beautiful colourful boxes to put stuff in from officeworks which I used the last workplacement and I don't want to make the same mistake because my teacher told me to be a bit more creative, but she really likes drawing! what kind of theme could I do? Should I do maybe an office? (but she doesn't really write - just mainly draws) ....um I need help

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Any ideas would be helpful.

They don't have much paper for the children at the centre, and it's recycled paper which has already been filled up. So I thought I could implement lots of beautiful colourful paper and maybe cut them into different shapes just to have something different, and maybe add some stimulating pictures because she was looking at the wall for inspiration and coming up with what she knows from the community.

Is this okay or too simple? Other than drawing I was also thinkig collage (I have to implement a physical and creative so either way) or clay, or using crayons and doing rubbings or monoprinting.

I'm not sure the best one to do.

[Lorina]

Previously when I was a preschool room leader I also had a couple of children that really loved drawing. Great to see that sort of creativity at such a young age! Some of the experiences I did to extend upon this:

- add small mirrors on the drawing table for children to draw their own self portrait. I used a book stand to help stand them up (they were little hand held mirrors big enough for a child to view their full face).

- each week in the middle of the drawing table I would add a real object that a child can "copy" to draw. For example :a vase with flowers, a basket of fruit etc. You can take a photo of the real object and then place the child drawing of it next to it for a display.

- another experience in drawing area select a famous artist (e.g. picasso) and include images of some of his popular paintings (on a nearby wall or use a clipboard to display it on the drawing table). You can even go to the library and get a couple of books to display on the drawing table as well in regards to the artist you chose. You can also discuss the artist and the type of paintings they create etc.

- when you set up pencils etc. I recommend to have a variety of each colour available and separate each coloured pencil into individual coloured containers. For e.g. red with red, blue with blue, yellow with yellow. Just looks so much more appealing...

Hope you get some ideas from these experience,

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L.A

Just wanted to mention - Within the drawing table I didn't have that big of a table so I used a trolley. At the top of the trolley added boxes and within the boxes added different materials that can be used for collaging/drawing e.g pom poms, pipe cleaners, popicle sticks, crepe paper, tissue paper etc. I also had glue, rulers, textas, crayons, lead pencils that the children can select to use whenever they wanted to.