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Creative Arts

In relation to children, the creative arts are activities that engage a child's imagination and can include activities such as art, dance, drama, puppetry, and music.
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Items added to dramatic play area:
  • Paper Bags
  • String
  • Shoes 
  • Clothes
  • Instruments 

Name of Activity: Recycled Art

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Originating Idea: Art

 

Curriculum Area: Creative arts

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Materials:

  • All recycled materials 

  • Left over googly eyes

  • String pieces

  • Foam pieces

  • Empty Tissue Box

  • Etc

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Appropriate Age group: 2-8 Years Old

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Beginning of Activity

Talk to children about recycling. Explain to them that we can use objects in our classroom to make beautiful art projects. Fill an empty tissue box with recycled art materials. Have the children reach inside and grab pieces from the box.

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Middle of Activity

Early:

Have these children take pieces from the box and create their own personalized art projects with them. They can get a crazy or as simple as they'd like to make them.

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Middle:

Explore these children's minds, ask them what their making, what inspired them to add these pieces to their art project. Why they added a certain piece to their projects.

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Later:

Explore these children's minds, ask them what their making, what inspired them to add these pieces to their art project. Why they added a certain piece to their projects. Allow these children then to show you what they made while having them show you want materials they used for this activity and why.

                                                      

End of Activity

Do a show and tell with your child's are projects. 

Ask them open ended questions about what they made and why they used the materials that they picked.

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Follow-up Ideas:

Use these art projects in their portfolios to show their creativity. 

Add these recycled materials on your art shelf for the children to use when they are making other open ended art projects.

Name of Activity: Marching Band

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Originating Idea: Music

 

Curriculum Area: Creative arts

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Materials:

  • Different Instruments

  • Mesh Streamers

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Appropriate Age group: 1-6 Years Old

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Beginning of Activity

Talk to the children about all different instruments.

Demonstrate what each instrument you have does. 

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Middle of Activity

Early:

Give these children an instrument that they could dance around with. Give each child a turn using all different instruments. 

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Middle:

Give these children an instrument that they could dance around with. Give each child a turn using all different instruments. Have these children try and follow one another in a line forming a marching band. 

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Later:

Give these children an instrument that they could dance around with. Give each child a turn using all different instruments. Have these children try and follow one another in a line forming a marching band or while playing next to each other try and match their friends beat or rythum. 

                                                      

End of Activity

Talk to the children about making music and what instruments what what different sounds. 

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Follow-up Ideas:

Allow these materials to stay out on your shelves for your children to have access to throughout the day.

Have your children talk about what instrument they enjoyed the most. 

Name of Activity: Shoe Store

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Originating Idea: Pretend Play 

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Curriculum Area: Creative Arts

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Materials:

  • Shoe Boxes

  • Shoes

  • Cash Register

  • Shoe Size Measurer

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Appropriate Age group: 1-6 Years Old

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Beginning of Activity

Read the children a book called "Pete the Cat, I lvoe my White Shoes" to get them all excited and curious about the shoe store that were going to create. 

 

 

Middle of Activity

Early:

Have these children be the shoppers for the shoes. Observe as the children play and "shop" around looking at all the different options of shoes. 

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Middle:

These children can be the workers of the store. Watch as the children work at the shoe store helping the other children try on shoes and play during our shoe shop time. 

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Later:

Allow these children to also work at the store. These children can help customers pick out shoes and try them on, while also playing at the register cashing out the children that bought shoes. 

                                                      

End of Activity

This is a very open ended activity for children to play out different scenarios at a shoe store. Try to sit back and watch the children as they pretend to run the store or be a customer.  

 

Follow-up Ideas:

Allow these items to be apart of your children dramatic play area. 

Allow these children to make up another type of store that they would like to create. Maybe a grocery store or a clothing store. 

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