Remember how much you enjoyed painting as a kid? Being able to dip your fingers into the paint or use a paintbrush to create your very own ‘masterpiece’ is an important part of childhood—not only did it give you a space for creativity, it also helped you develop important skills that went beyond just art creation. That’s why intentionally teaching painting to elementary students is so important. And wouldn’t you like to be able to teach your own children or students real painting lessons?
Teaching painting helps students build confidence and creativity. It also offers several other benefits, including:
- Improved concentration – As kids get into a flow of creating, they strengthen their concentration and focus. The more time they spend painting and working on art projects, the longer they’ll be able to concentrate on other subjects too.
- Stronger fine-motor skills – Learning to make controlled brushstrokes and even just holding and manipulating a paintbrush can help young kids develop and strengthen their fine-motor skills, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and muscle strength.
- Increased independence – Setting up materials and cleaning up their workspace promotes independence and responsibility.
- A richer vocabulary – By teaching painting, you’re also teaching students how to communicate what they see in their artworks and how to describe their personal artistic process. The Elements of Principles of Design (or “art language”) can start off as simple as using words like “color” or “line,” and grow into a deeper understanding and interpretation of artworks.
- A deeper understanding of emotions – Painting provides an ideal way for students to explore their emotions, especially if they don’t yet have the vocabulary to verbally express themselves and their feelings.
- Better problem-solving skills – When kids get the chance to explore the medium and experiment with different types of paints and colors, they’re developing their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Structured Painting Lessons for Elementary Students
Jumping on Pinterest or looking through blogs can give you a ton of painting art projects, activities, and ideas, but you’d be hard-pressed to find actual painting lessons for elementary kids.
Many ‘art lessons’ you find online are all about the final product. But for elementary students, especially those who have never painted before, art lessons need to be about the artistic process—which is the four steps every artist goes through as they create: investigation, imagining, construction, and reflection. This supports process-based learning, which focuses on making projects with no final product or result. Because, at this age, children are learning through exploration, and art lessons and curriculum should set them up for discovery.
If you have no experience in painting, or teaching art isn’t your strength, creating your own painting curriculum can feel impossible to figure out. You have to know which painting lessons to start out with, the best painting materials for children, and how to present and sequence lessons so students actually learn the practical art skills they need to become little artists through this type of process-based learning.
There’s never really been an art curriculum like this to follow…until now!
Kids Painting Practice & Process Curriculum
If you want to teach your children or students painting, but don’t know where to start, the solution is my new Kids Painting Practice & Process Curriculum!
Kids Painting is an easy-to-follow curriculum that provides the foundational lessons and 57 brushstroke exercises that all artists should work through, in the proper teaching order. It’s the accumulation of years of work spent observing how children process and experience art. I’ve taken the complicated process of teaching painting and made it easy enough for anyone to do—even if you have absolutely no experience with art!
Each lesson includes a materials list and step-by-step presentation and demonstration technique guides, as well as the aims, or goals, of each lesson.
All you have to do is open the curriculum and start with Lesson 1. Read over the curriculum, review the materials, and present the lesson to your kids or students. It’s foolproof!
You can turn Kids Painting into a full year of painting curriculum by focusing on one to two lessons each week or you can use it along with other art study curriculum. (Kids Painting is designed to integrate with other areas of art study curriculum, which are also available through Nature of Art®.)
There’s no excuse not to teach painting to your child or students! In fact, you can start this school year!
And, for a limited time, you can get Kids Painting Practice & Process Curriculum for a special premiere price—all 57 master brushstroke lessons and exercises for just $97.
Kids Painting will increase in price after this introductory period, so make sure you get it now!
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