Comments on: Right Brain or Left Brain: Children & Creativity http://www.funderstanding.com/spotlight/right-brain-vs-left-brain-children-creativity Education, Training, and Product Design Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:45:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Art Activities for Kids: The Preschematic Stage of Art | So says Sarah... http://www.funderstanding.com/spotlight/right-brain-vs-left-brain-children-creativity/comment-page-1#comment-28030 Art Activities for Kids: The Preschematic Stage of Art | So says Sarah... Fri, 13 May 2011 22:23:04 +0000 http://www.funderstanding.com/?p=894#comment-28030 [...] go through developmental stages in art helping them hone their budding skills and explore their creativity. Once a child figures out they [...] [...] go through developmental stages in art helping them hone their budding skills and explore their creativity. Once a child figures out they [...]

]]> By: Collaging with Kandinsky | So says Sarah... http://www.funderstanding.com/spotlight/right-brain-vs-left-brain-children-creativity/comment-page-1#comment-15168 Collaging with Kandinsky | So says Sarah... Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:26:57 +0000 http://www.funderstanding.com/?p=894#comment-15168 [...] Invite your child to start tearing colors of tissue paper. Tearing encourages those itty-bitty muscles in your child’s hands honing her fine-motor skills. If you’ve got a young one (two to five years of age) they can go willy-nilly tearing and then coating with a layer of glue water, but for an older child (six and up) you can encourage her to think about design and balance in her artwork before gluing her tissue pieces down, motivating her analytical left brain to work alongside her creative right brain. [...] [...] Invite your child to start tearing colors of tissue paper. Tearing encourages those itty-bitty muscles in your child’s hands honing her fine-motor skills. If you’ve got a young one (two to five years of age) they can go willy-nilly tearing and then coating with a layer of glue water, but for an older child (six and up) you can encourage her to think about design and balance in her artwork before gluing her tissue pieces down, motivating her analytical left brain to work alongside her creative right brain. [...]

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