Arty Pants - Learning though creativity
Valuing creativity - artists working in partnership with children, teachers and schools.
Born from working with children in early years, Arty Pants is a programme that works with schools and children to encourage creativity and learning.
Arty Pants is inspired by Italy's Reggio Emilia Approach to early years and primary school education. It puts the natural development of the child through exploration, at the centre of its philosophy.
The programme delivers a creative project, working with teachers to inspire them too. A seed of an idea is planted with the children, stimulating their natural curiosity. Through exploration and gentle guidance, they create artworks inspired by the seed idea, experiencing for themselves the power of their own creativity.
Finally elements are harvested from the children's artworks to produce saleable products that can be used to raise funds for the school.
Arty Pants core values are -
- To value and document the creativity of the child
- For artists to deliver creative projects to schools to inspire children, parents and teachers
- To encourage, nurture and foster creativity in young people, helping them to fulfil their potentials now and in the future
The Arty Pants programme can offer these outcomes -
- It allows the child to experience the transforming power of creative activity
- It raises funds for schools by harvesting the creative output of the children to produce saleable products
- It shows the difference between artworks and designed works and the different processes required to realise them.
- It shows the difference between function and non-function.
- It makes the connection between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.
- It introduces children to professionals external to the school environment, giving the children aspirations to the possibility of future life choices.
Please contact Kellie for more information on the Arty Pants programme.