More About Mark Making
Young children are fascinated by their ability to make marks. There are several stages that preschoolers go through in the making of marks, from fly drawing to energetic and large movements over the surface. Children start naming their marks and as their skills develop they begin to make shapes that will increase in complexity.
At this stage it is the movement, the engagement in the process that the student enjoys. It is the process that is our objective – the mental process that the child is engaged in when he or she takes a crayon and touches it to paper. We want to give them lots of opportunities to explore mark making.
This week the Nursery and PreK classes will play with the idea of lines that move. We will use the oil pastels to make marks, each in their own way. Then we will use watercolors to create interesting backgrounds.
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