How Do You Talk About Art With School Kids?
Children can have fun talking about art during elementary art lessons. I like to concentrate on a few key concepts to develop an art appreciation vocabulary for elementary age kids. Notice that I don’t include color or color theory on this How to list. Since color is an abstract topic during art education. Color opinions are left up to the students to develop naturally. No matter what the grade level you can talk about art with the students in the classroom. When you keep things simple the children catch on quickly and they really get involved. Students in the higher grades will remember art vocabulary when called upon during art education time. Portrait verses Landscape. You can physically turn some of the art poster boards to easily show this concept. Students must know this to follow art project instructions and later for basic computer skills such as formatting and printing. Contrast. Explain that it’s all about light and dark in the artwork. Other words you can use are shadow and
