ArtSparks' Littlest Learners
The Early Childhood Toolkit offers a thoughtfully crafted selection of multi-sensory prompts, diverse materials, and art-based process-oriented interventions. Designed to stimulate children's innate curiosity and support the holistic development of various types of learners, our toolkit engages visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, linguistic, and other learning styles. Our unique offering kindles hands-on experimentation and exploration within structured and sequential lessons, facilitating deep understanding and fostering competence and meaning-making in children.
Why is it needed?
Hands-on experiences are crucial for young learners as they learn best through active engagement with their surroundings. While the arts offer diverse opportunities for such engagement, traditional approaches to arts education often prioritize the final product, overlooking the value and impact of the creative process for young children. Therefore, there is a growing need for richer art-based interventions that are process-focused and cater to diverse learning styles and differentiated instructions.
Who is it for?
It is designed for educators, parents and others who would like support in integrating arts to meet the developmental milestones of three to six year olds.
What does it contain?
Rich, diverse materials that stimulate exploration and experimentation, providing opportunities for children to work both independently and collaboratively, while exercising decision-making and problem-solving skills. Our design sparks children’s curiosity to explore their own ideas and solutions, ask questions, and discover possibilities. Additionally, it provides wonderful opportunities for children to use their communication skills, enhancing their capacity to engage with language and literacy development.
How do I get the toolkit?
Please fill the interest form here. If you have any further questions please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]
Why is it needed?
Hands-on experiences are crucial for young learners as they learn best through active engagement with their surroundings. While the arts offer diverse opportunities for such engagement, traditional approaches to arts education often prioritize the final product, overlooking the value and impact of the creative process for young children. Therefore, there is a growing need for richer art-based interventions that are process-focused and cater to diverse learning styles and differentiated instructions.
Who is it for?
It is designed for educators, parents and others who would like support in integrating arts to meet the developmental milestones of three to six year olds.
What does it contain?
Rich, diverse materials that stimulate exploration and experimentation, providing opportunities for children to work both independently and collaboratively, while exercising decision-making and problem-solving skills. Our design sparks children’s curiosity to explore their own ideas and solutions, ask questions, and discover possibilities. Additionally, it provides wonderful opportunities for children to use their communication skills, enhancing their capacity to engage with language and literacy development.
How do I get the toolkit?
Please fill the interest form here. If you have any further questions please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]
Testimonials
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Whatever art-based intervention I was conducting with younger children till date was limited to just being an activity. I always felt I was missing out on something, but I was not able to figure out what exactly. Children were definitely learning something, but what they were learning and how they learned it was unclear. These sessions on Early Childhood were extremely beneficial for me in that sense.
–Sukhada, CoFounder, Anandban |
As I work with early childhood age group children, I always knew how art is a strong tool to achieve development goals in younger kids. But in my experience of working with both public and private schools I didn’t come across any practices that give individual kids (especially younger kids) a chance to make their own art. The teacher is so concerned about the perfection of the art that every artwork of every child in the classroom is identical. Various stages in the creation of artwork are overtaken by teachers either because teachers don't think that children are capable or they want to avoid mess in the classroom. Till now I was alone in the process of building an environment where every voice and their ways of learning are respected, but now I have found a community. I had not till date recognized the power of exploration of the art medium. This was great learning that I am taking forward in my space. Younger children are always in a hurry to complete their work and exploration gives them space to kind of slow down the process and meanwhile also teaches them crucial skills.
– Ashwini, Founder, Avantiti Education and Training Foundation |