Activity : The World and I
Materials:
- Large piece poster board
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Photographs
- Magazines
- Any other material your child might need
- Look through magazines and photographs for things that describe your understanding of the world
- Cut them out in whatever shape you like and glue these pictures/photographs on the poster board (such that the poster board is full with no background color showing)
- Now look through the magazines and photographs again but this time for things that describe you
- Cut these images out and glue them on the same poster board (ie. on top of the things that describe your understanding of the world), in whatever direction, shape, position you prefer
- Use whatever else you need (glitter, cards, paper clips etc) that would show a better understanding of who you are and what you think of the world
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brighter the color, the greater the attraction. Like for example, if we see the above picture, the focus of that image becomes the pink color. Our eyes automatically see the pink first, then the yellow and then the little bit of red. The black, white, and gray are what they eye sees the last. The same goes for the flowers on the left - the focus or the attention is given to the red rose, where as all the other flowers
sort of become the background. The red rose sticks out from the rest of the flowers.
The same goes for this image. Here we see different colors of the crayons, and we also see gray crayons (rather crayons which have been grayed out to blend in with the mat). It's like these four crayons are the spotlight of this image!
Color :
the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
Without color, our life would just be black and
white - boring. Color brings in the adventure, the beauty, the life in our world. The world is filled with vibrant hues, color puts emotion in our life. Over the decades, we have started to associate certain feelings and emotions to certain colors. For example, red describes love and warmth whereas blue describes cool and calm.
Life without color is unimaginable. We see color and we automatically become happy. Imagine having to choose from a black and white version of movie and a colorful one. Which one would you choose? The colorful one, right?! Our eyes have become used to see color all around us, it has become a need for us; without color we would probably die. Color sets the mood of the place. Color ... excites us, amazes us, attracts us.
sort of become the background. The red rose sticks out from the rest of the flowers.
The same goes for this image. Here we see different colors of the crayons, and we also see gray crayons (rather crayons which have been grayed out to blend in with the mat). It's like these four crayons are the spotlight of this image!
Childhood is the period where life is full of different colors, excitement, and adventure.Children like seeing different colors. I remember as one of my activities for placement I had taken crayons, dipped them in different colored paint and then put them in the show box. The box was then shook up and down, side to side by the children, and when the lid was opened, the picture/image that came forth was beautiful. The children saw it and were amazed at what the plain white paper had become! They started naming the colors they each saw. Colors make children happy, colors make everyone happy!
References
Schirrmacher R., and Fox, J.E. (2009). Arts & Creative Development for Young Children. US: Thomson Delmar Learning.
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