Creative processing- Jessica and StarR

We highly value the importance of providing ample blocks of time for creative expression, we are able to give this time to our tamariki through our play based learning.  

Children need large blocks of time to create and re-create and not be hurried or pressured to begin or finish works against the creative impulse. Children also need time to start, change and return to their creative processing. 

Today was a beautiful example of allowing time for children to be creative. I asked the class to begin tidying up, normally this means everything gets put away and our playing stops. However, today I was approached by Jessica and StarR who had been working down by Finnley (our fish) and they asked if they can continue their drawings. At this point I didnt know what they were creating but I could hear the passion in their voices and decided to let them continue.....

WOW!!!! I was blown away with their finished drawings. 

They have looked at Finnley through the eyes of an artist- with perceptive awareness of outline, shape, proportions, tone, colour, texture, form and composition