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Young Children July 20041 Promoting Creativity for Life UsingOpen-Ended Materialsreative art is so many things! It is flowerdrawings and wire flower sculptures inclay pots created by kindergartners aftervisiting a flower show. It is a spontaneous leapfor joy that shows up in a series of temperapaintings, pencil drawings of tadpoles turninginto frogs, 3-D skyscrapers built from card-board boxes or wooden blocks. It can be themovement and dance our bodies portray, therhythmic sound of pie-pan cymbals and papertowel tube trumpets played by four-year-oldsin their marching parade, the construction ofspaceships and birthday is most important in the creative arts isthat teachers, families, and children draw upontheir inner resources, making possible directand clear expression.
2 Young Children• July 2004 Creative Arts early childhood classrooms and how their use affects the teaching/learning process. We identify seven key principles for using open-ended materials in early
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