To get ideas for arts and crafts have a look at MTR stations in Hong Kong. Sometimes they display local schools' arts and crafts. Flowers made with cardboard and paper, painted in the hues the children like. Arts and crafts can be sometimes be very revealing.
I have seen the arts and crafts created by Cambodian and Burmese children in refugee camps. An American artist would take art materials and show the children how to use them. The children would paint and draw wonderful pictures, sometimes tragic pictures that man, let alone children should not have seen. It was a release for some of them, like therapy.
One Christmas I invested serious money (25HKD) on a sushi Play Dough set. I thought that the children might enjoy playing with it. I was right on that one ! Suddenly all the children were creating small dishes of Play Dough sushi, the teacher's assistants were using all making sushi as well, oh yes, and so was I, it was great fun for all ! One boy, who had been somewhat disruptive, suddenly wanted to tell me about his trips to Japan and how he loved sushi. This was the most communicative he had ever been. If you teach young children Play Dough will make an excellent activity for them. Play Dough is cheap to buy, if you need lots of it you can make it. Search for a recipe on Google.
On one occasion I showed the children how to make a butterfly by folding a piece of paper in half and cutting out a shape of half a butterfly. I opened up the butterfly and applied paint to half of the butterfly and folded it together again, and sort of squished it a bit. I then opened it up so the children could see the finished product. Then I would hide the butterfly as I did not want them to copy my butterfly. Every butterfly was different, this is the way it should be.
If you need ideas for art activities, YouTube is a good place to look ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJNj1AVFcrg Every time you find a useful site go to "More From: XXX" and see if there is anything else that you like there. If there is something you like save it to a hard disk rather than saving the link. Links sometimes get removed, it would be unfortunate if you were going to rely on a link that had been removed.
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It's a nice project to make Play Dough crafts, Gibble. If the class is small, every student has a chance to talk with the teacher how they make their own crafts. It would be a new way of TEFL, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteOften with artwork you get to see a new side to your students. I had one who had to ask for a crayon to colour his fish, he asked for rainbow colour, so I gave him a selection of crayons and sure enough he produced a rainbow fish ! Some children will not have the opportunity to play around with artwork. I did see the artwork of a Cambodian child from a refugee camp. It was like a Van Gogh with a bright blue sky, yellow sun, yellow rice being harvested and a man with bright red where his knee had been, another landmine victim. A Burmese child drew a very graphic picture of helicopters, soldiers, women being raped and people being bayoneted. As I said it is like therapy for some children.
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