Encouraging a Child's Art Work

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Part of the video series: How to Raise a Creative Child

Summary: Artists make good children; learn how to encourage a child's creative imagination through art in this free instructional video clip on raising a creative kid.

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Sally Head Sally Head, a mother of two preschoolers Hannah and Emma, is a certified bilingual elementary school teacher. For the past 15 years, Ms. Head has been traveli... read more

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Encouraging a Child's Art Work

On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Sally Head and today I am going to talk to you about how to nurture your preschoolers imagination. Relish their artwork. It doesn't cost much to encourage a child's imagination with their artistic abilities. Things such as white copy paper or construction paper, markers or crayons, anything that kids can express themselves with through the art medium and remember coloring books are a wonderful way for children to practice coloring, having them draw a specific animal or just creating whatever they want really helps open up what is inside. Hannah, would you like to draw a picture for me. Want to use markers or crayons? Markers; okay, you start drawing. Try to remember to set up an area in your house. If you don't have a large house, any little area that can be their arts and craft center is a wonderful way for them to know that this is where they can find all of their supplies necessary and also helps mom's to know where they can stash supplies if unexpected guest come over.

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