Apoye completamente la expresión creativa de los niños
Divida las artes en categorías, Dramatización creativa Música, Movimiento con propósito y Artes visuales.
El proceso de experimentar y expresar o crear arte es una forma en que los niños pueden sintetizar todo lo que están aprendiendo sobre el mundo, especialmente el mundo natural.
El juego dramático se puede interpretar y comprender a través de las formas en que los niños participan en juegos elaborados e imaginativos, mostrándonos lo que están pensando y cómo están dando sentido a lo que sucede a su alrededor.
Cuando los niños usan partes de objetos naturales, como tocones, palos y semillas de pino, ese juego están adquiere una nueva riqueza pídale que piensen en sus propias ideas y creen sus propios accesorios. A veces se sumergen en un mundo encantador de fantasía por un tiempo.
Música y Movimiento
Nature, music and movement work very well together. We know that all children, but especially those who are truly kinesthetic, need to move in order to learn. By helping them learn what their bodies are capable of and how to regulate it, the natural outdoor classroom provides the space for children to engage in a wide variety of movements, even including real jobs like digging holes and raking leaves. When musical instruments are available every day, children often link their movements to music. They can jump like a friend beating a drum or float like a butterfly, dancing with handkerchiefs.
Another unique opportunity that the outdoors offers is the practice of attentive listening. Children develop valuable musical understanding as they try to match the notes played with their voices or experiment with pitch and volume. One child that I observed in an outdoor classroom would regularly watch and listen to birds and then try to call and respond with them, hoping they would enjoy her songs as much as she enjoyed theirs.
Visual arts
Consider how the aesthetics of environments support creativity.
The beauty of nature inspires much of the art we see in museums and elsewhere, so it should come as no surprise that children respond in the same way.
Developmentally appropriate practice calls for us on the process of creation rather than the product, and outdoor art areas can truly inspire children’s processes.
Processes can include stone mosaics, mud paintings on easels and sidewalks, and snow sculptures waiting for the warmth of the sun to melt them into new shapes. The great messy artwork that can happen with materials like these that can ensure that artistic creation is a very sensory experience.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and navigating.” Learning to interpret the world around us so that we can find our place in it and be able to contribute to it. That is what education is all about. Creativity is the way children express their uniqueness.
When they make stories, make music, draw, they make visible what they know, what they feel and who they are. We can learn more from our children.
