ART AND HANDWORK
ASSIGNMENT 2
FIRST SEMESTER
NAME : AMMAARAH ESSACK
STUDENT NUMBER : 50937235
UNIQUE NUMBER : 728589
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE
QUESTION 1
1.1 Scribbling stage
1.2 Pre-schematic stage
1.3 Schematic stage
1.4 Gang-age stage
QUESTION 2
2.1 Food in art.
2.2 Three major learning styles.
2.3 Schirrmacher’s stages of artistic development.
2.4 Ways to facilitate creative thinking in children.
2.5 Ten art materials which are potentially unsafe and unhealthy for children.
2.6 Five Roles teachers can play in early childhood art.
NAME : Ammaarah Essack
STUDENT NUMBER : 50937235
COURSE CODE: PRS1034
UNIQUE NUMBER: 728589
Question 1
1.1 Scribbling Stage – Exploration
a) Uncontrolled Scribbling Random marks made on a page.
Kinesthetic action gives child great pleasure.
Characteristics
Child does not draw or build and movement kinaesthetic.
Random marks on paper.
Beat, press and pull clay.
b) Controlled Scribbling
Child becomes aware of the movement of their hands and mark on paper.
They will repeat the same scribbles.
Characteristics
Marks repeated horizontal, vertical and circular.
Pull, roll and press clay.
Scribbles are named, moves from kinaesthetic thinking to imaginative thinking.
Use of colour is unrealistic and random.
Children are egocentric.
Attention span of children at this stage is limited to 5 minutes.
C) Naming of scribbles.
Moves from kinaesthetic thinking to imaginative thinking.
Not much difference between controlled scribbles and naming scribbles.
Naming scribbles relates to the outside world.
Characteristics
Child names the scribbles.
All pre-primary return to this stage in their manipulation of new medium, material, instrument or technique.
Choose activities which appeal to senses (e.g).
NAME : Ammaarah Essack
STUDENT NUMBER : 50937235
COURSE CODE: PRS1034
UNIQUE NUMBER: 728589
1.2 Pre-schematic or early symbolic stage
Child creates shapes consciously.
Basic shapes develops