The book The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be by Joanna Gaines & Julianna Swaney celebrates how creativity & acceptance can come together to make for a bright & beautiful adventure. A group of children build their very own hot-air balloons & work together, leaning into their own skills & processes, they discover that the same is true for life—it's more beautiful and vibrant when our differences are celebrated.
After reading this book we set out to get creative by painting 3-D floating hot air balloons with the new Colorations® Simply Shiny Washable Tempera, that was #gifted from Discount School Supply.This different art experience lets the children paint through a type of art called Action Art. The process with this type of invitation involves a lot of layers of their development enhancing. The child will use their cognitive skills to figure out how to manipulate the lantern to stay in place in order to paint. They began to observe & ask questions to strategize how to effectively paint the lanterns. With the canvas being out of the norm, the child's fine & gross motor skills were challenged.
All aspects of this process, from painting on different media, standing upright to using small & large muscles, trying to manage the movement of the lantern, gives the child an opportunity to be completely immersed in the process of creating in a unique way!
Exploring art, color, gravity, movement, media, will only enhance a child‘s way of thinking creatively. Every time we provide children with the opportunity to create art all on their own, we are reminded of how engaging and important process art is.
