Arts & Crafts are an important part of childhood development
Arts & Crafts are an important part of childhood development. Crafts are an important part of every day at homeschool. iPad offers many of the creative and visual developmental processes that a traditional primary school curriculum offers - usually once a week via an Art-Cart. As a trained K-18 Art Teacher, I can speak authoritatively about this.
Many of the lesson plans I created were designed to get the most out of children in each developmental stage. This was challenging, to say the least.
iPad has changed Art Education... permanently!
LOTS of time involved in teaching ART is getting everything in on place, ready to start! And lots more goes in cleaning it all up again. Art shouldn't be about tidying up, it should be about being creative. Here's an example of my Art lessons on cross-hatching, in real time:
- Let's get set up. Tap. Okay, all set up.
- "Okay, here's how you to it..." I say.
- Tap pencil, make criss - cross lines
- Make jagged scratchy lines.
- Tap, tap, scratchy lines the other way... Done.
- "Understand? Any questions?" I ask.
- A short pause.
- "Yes Dad. Can I go try that on my iPad (or on paper) now?"
- "Yes, you sure can," I say
- Art lesson finished!
- Tap
- All cleaned up!
This is FAR MORE EFFECTIVE for teaching aesthetics, methods and techniques than that Art Cart I pushed around for years - read about my take on iPad & Art Education.
Here are the best iPad Apps for Art & Creativity we've found. I encourage you to explore your own creativity. It's good for you.