A colleague of mine recommended A Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg after we taught our Saturday art class. Her unit was about "play" where her students were to imagine a place that they would like to play and then they built it using shoeboxes and and other mixed media. It turned out really cool. This book helped her students free themselves from the constraints of "right" and "wrong." It shows young kids that it's ok to make mistakes, that a "mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery."
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Beautiful Oops
A colleague of mine recommended A Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg after we taught our Saturday art class. Her unit was about "play" where her students were to imagine a place that they would like to play and then they built it using shoeboxes and and other mixed media. It turned out really cool. This book helped her students free themselves from the constraints of "right" and "wrong." It shows young kids that it's ok to make mistakes, that a "mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery."
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art education,
Books
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