TinkerLab Art Starts: 52 Projects for Open-Ended Exploration
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Details
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Shambhala Publications
Pages: 176
Size: 7 in x 9 in
ISBN: 9781611806687
Book description
Get inspired with hands-on creative art prompts for children ages 3–8 featuring simple materials you can find at home.
TinkerLab Art Starts encourages children to focus on the process and experience of art instead of the outcome. Open-ended art prompts are essential for raising learners who are comfortable with the unknown and eager to tackle it with creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
Offering ideas on how to create an art space and foster self-directed play along with a wide range of prompts—from drawing, painting, and paper cutting to sculpting with clay and other three-dimensional art—these 52 projects inspire creative art play using basic supplies and everyday household materials to get kids engaged in their own explorations.
Praise for the book
Barbara Rucci
“Oh, how I love this book! It speaks to my inner child in a way that only open-ended art invitations can. This book is filled not just with simple and beautiful invitations, but with incredibly sage advice on raising twenty-first-century creative thinkers.”
Jennifer Winters
“This book provides an invaluable resource and process for both parents and teachers to nurture a child’s discovery and creativity. An early childhood education gem!”
Steve Seidel
“Doorley has done it again! Drawing on her many years of experience, notably as founder/director of TinkerLab, she shares, in an encouraging and wonderfully accessible way, just how the right mix of simple art materials and children’s curiosity and imagination with an open ‘invitation to create’ can produce magic at your kitchen table.”
