Fine motor skills are crucial for early learning. There are many fine motor skill activities for kids. Tearing paper is one of the activity for developing fine motor skills. It requires strength of the small muscles in the hand.
I have been tossing the idea of blogging my experiences teaching art for quite a while and have finally managed to sit down and do it at last. This blog is intended for anyone who is looking for ideas/inspiration for teaching art for young children. Watching kids create art is the most amazing, rewarding experience! This blog will be a day-to-day (hopefully) account of activities that I am doing and hopefully full of ideas that you can use with kids.
5 July 2022
Pre Primary - Paper Tearing Activity
Fine motor skills are crucial for early learning. There are many fine motor skill activities for kids. Tearing paper is one of the activity for developing fine motor skills. It requires strength of the small muscles in the hand.
18 May 2022
Class VI - Gond Art
Gond painting is a famous folk art of the Gond tribal community of central India. It is done to preserve and communicate the culture of the Gond tribal community. Gond tribal art includes folk dances, folk songs, and Gond paintings.
Characteristics of Gond Art
Gond paintings mainly depict the following subjects: –
- Pictures of peacocks, birds, crabs, mythical beasts, lizards, lions, tigers, deer, snakes, wild boars, cows, monkeys, elephants, horses, fish, etc.
- Mahua Tree as Tree of Life. Mahua flowers, fruits, seeds, and leaves are used for many purposes by the Gond tribe.
- Modern design such as airplanes, bicycles, cars, technology, etc.
- Myths, legends, and aspects of the daily life of Gond people.
- Hindu gods such as Lord Shiva, Lord Krishna, Lord Ganesha, etc.
- Local deities like Phulvari Devi (Goddess Kali), Jalharin Devi (River Goddess), Marahi Devi, etc.
- Folktales.
Each Gond artist uses his own distinctive pattern and style to fill the images. These distinctive patterns are called signature patterns.
Some of the patterns used in Gond paintings are:
- Dots
- Fine Lines
- Curved Lines
- Dashes
- Fish Scales
- Drops of Water
- Seed Shapes
- Geometrical Shapes, etc.
Class IV - DALA HORSE (HORSE DRAWING)
Students below learning to draw Dala Horse in a fun way to learn drawing animals!!!
Paper Tearing
9 May 2022
Pre School - RED Colour Day
To teach about the symbolism and importance of the colour “Red” to our Pre School children, Red Day was celebrated on 9th May 2022, Monday. Pre school students were asked to dress in red colour on that day. Our teachers also joined the celebration by wearing red coloured dress to school. Students were shown different red coloured things like apple, tomatoes, pomegranate, strawberry, etc.
Students actively participate by discussing different objects near them including their lunch box, water bottle, pencil box, etc. Each of them got an opportunity to speak about their favourite red object. Everyone enjoyed colouring different things of Red colour.
Below are few pictures of the day























































