K - 3rd Grade Program
Art Curriculum for Kindergarten and Early Elementary, ages 5-9
Your child is ready to Express! The art you see at this stage is based on your child’s ideas, experiences, and imagination, expressed in personal, creative ways through the use of simple lines and shapes that we call symbols or schema. As skills develop, the child makes use of additional details and color in their picture-making for the purpose of identifying people, places, and things.
ARTistic Pursuits resources are designed specifically for your child's Symbolic Stage of Development. We provide learning opportunities with art class objectives that fit your kindergartner and early elementary student's needs as growing artists and expand their visual experiences. Your child will learn how to look at famous artist's artworks, understand the language unique to the subject of art and it's history, and produce artworks in drawing, painting, and sculpture that showcase each child's unique personality.
Where do I start? Young children should start in Art for Children, Volume 1, where 18 lessons cover the first semester as children complete one art lesson each week. With a good grasp of words that we commonly use in art, they can go to other courses in this 8 book set (sequentially through history or skip to any period of their choice.)
What do I get? You get a physical hardcover book with DVD's and Blu-ray disks and you can add LIFETIME ACCESS TO THE STREAMED COURSE (login sent to your email address.)
Vol. 1: Art for Children, Building a Visual Vocabulary
watercolor crayons | oil pastel | colored paper works
This beginning art course for kindergarten and early elementary students is the starting point for a delightful adventure in art. Topics include the things artists do (compose, imagine, observe, communicate) and the elements we see (shapes, form, and texture) as well as the types of subjects we draw and paint (landscapes, still life, animals, figures, and portraits.)
- Prompted by the text, your child participates in exploring these ideas in their own world, becoming more visually aware of the world they live in. With awareness, those objects and observations begin to appear in their artwork. Your child begins to tell their own story, revealing their ideas, interests, and experiences like a true artist.
- Video lessons engage your child's curiosity about the art materials they use, as they absorb new information about painting with watercolor crayons, proper handling of the brush, drawing in oil pastels, and learning to cut and fold paper to make collage and standing forms. 18 lessons with art projects. Take a look inside!