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11.9: Engaging Families

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    Teachers can make the following suggestions to families to facilitate their support of the creative arts for their children:

    • Try drawing, painting, and sculpture with the child at home.
    • Embrace dramatic play at home. Provide props, costumes, space, and time.
    • Show interest in their play and play with them.
    • Turn on the music and move with their children.
    • Incorporate dance and movement into everyday routines.
    • Tap and clap to rhythm of songs and encourage children to do the same.
    • Notice and talk about works of art seen and songs and music heard at home and in the community.
    • Notice and talk about shapes and colors in works of art and in the environment, sounds heard, episodes of dramatic play
    • Incorporate dramatic play into a variety of activities, such as reading and going on outings or trips.
    • Bring the child to an art museum or areas in the community with public displays of art, community concerts, family-child music classes, community dance performances, and movement programs.
    • Be open-minded and encouraging about works of art that are sent home from the preschool setting, children’s spontaneous musical performances, children’s dramatic play
    • Share art, songs, music, and dance traditions or movement games from their homes.
    • Donate materials that can be used in a variety of art experiences.
    • Come to watch or participate in an art show, children’s dramatic experiences, or a parent-child dance event[1]
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    Figure 11.12: These children are looking at this three-dimensional piece of artwork.[2]

    References

    [1] The California Preschool Curriculum Framework, Volume 2 by the California Department of Education is used with permission (pg. 61, 85, 99, 115-116)

    [2] Image from pxhere is licensed by CC-BY-4.0

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