Loving Rainbow Grass
I can not begin to tell you the number of times in my many many years of teaching, that I've heard another child say, "That's not grass, because the grass is supposed to be green!" I always chime in at this point and explain that Art is created from the imagination. I usually get that eye of skepticism as the busy work that's going on in the Art Area continues. A few things I'd like to share with you about my classroom. I am not the kind of teacher that believes "areas" are little prisons for the toys that belong in them. I am completely okay with a child taking the counting bears over to the kitchen area to make a tasty stew or the markers and scrap paper to the construction area to create a treasure map. I believe that play is the work of the child and that looks different on each child. This includes the color of his or her grass. Many times children will make an unidentified creation and when asked to explain the imagination, what follow...
