(Apologies for the dubious editing in this post...it wasn't playing ball tonight. Not operator error. Honest.)
It's by Barney Salzberg...he's also written other young children's books, 'Animal Kisses' and 'I Love Dogs' .
Already I've had some of the children come to me wanting to start again as they "have made a mistake/done it wrong/don't like it". Unless the project is completely unworkable or right off topic I will always tell them to give it a chance.
I've used the examples of those children to start this lesson with Year 3. I'm doing this with Year 3 as it's their first year in Key Stage 2 and they now have Art with me rather than with their class teacher. They told me they feel nervous as well as excited and that they are worried about making mistakes. PERfect introduction to this book and this session.
Here's a video of the book. Enjoy!
It helps young children to have fun with their mistakes. I gave them a few ripped bits of paper, heaps of scraps and some pens and glue. They set themselves challenges, they even set their classmates challenges. Not one child told me they had no ideas or felt uninspired. Such fresh, unfettered, unrestricted, unassuming minds. I hope that I help them stay so, and as a result I make them feel secure in their art lesson, no fear of making mistakes.
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| From a scrap of red cellophane |
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| A red squiggly line |
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| A hole ripped in the paper became the mouth |
Aaah! He DID do 'Crazy Hair Day' too! See the Year 4 post!
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