Well, as a kid, I'm very sure my art was terrible. In fact, so terrible, i wasn't graded in art because my teacher in kindergarten did not know what i was making. My experiences as a child with art was not very colorful as I am constantly reminded about my lack of the knack in art. For example, going back to the simplest form of art known to me at that time: a simple pencil drawing on a piece of drawing block. Most of the singular objects in my diagram was barely recognisable.
From my experience, I do not think the art education system in Singapore for kindergartens is very extensive. In my days, teachers treated art more as a irrelevant subject, and the point of the lesson was to get through it as fast as possible in order to move on to more critical lessons, like teaching grammar and maths. When my horrid drawings were shown to the teacher, (to the best of my memory), nothing was actually done to teach me drawing tactics and how to draw neatly. I believe art, (after doing some reflection on my own and some research), can be a way to express one's feelings, to serve as a form of stress therapy, and can be used to garner's a kid's attention in class and to get him to open up. This is especially so for young children. Many young children, are extremely reserved during the development stages of their lives, in kindergarten. Art can be a way to get them to open up. What they might not wish to verbalize, they might transcribe it into a drawing or a work of art. It is a silent act, making it more comfortable for some children.
Expression in the form of art might be a good way to kickstart our project and use it as a direction to head to. We can use art as a way to encourage the children in Little Wings to be open-minded to situations and let them be more active.
With a little luck, we might just change some lives.
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