Understanding Arts and Arts Education (Theory) Block : Art Education

(II) FOR PERFORMING ART
MATERIAL
By encouraging the children to create their own props and required materials,

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Planning and Organization of Art Education
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the teacher can make the music and dance activity more lively, interesting,
meaningful and wholesome as a learning process. Children can make jewellery
by using flowers, leaves and feathers. Small bangles can be used to make ear
rings. Cardboard, glazed paper, glitters and sequins can also be used to make
beautiful and inexpensive jewellery. For costumes and jewellery also there are
innumerable artists and crafts man in every region, who can be identified and
proper guidance taken for learning the above skills.
Props can be put to manifold use. For example a dupatta flattered overhead can
suggest the breeze, pulled across the face, it can suggest a ghoonghat (a woman’s
veil), pulled from both ends it suggest a rope. Held in the cradle of your palms, it
suggests a baby.
Musical instrument fascinate young children. Children should be encourage to
make their own instruments by using blocks, spoons, stones, pots, cans or other
things. Moreover clapping of hands, tapping on the table, can also be used for
the rhythm. A guitar can be made with the help of shoe box, some rubber bands
and a piece of wood. Eight glasses filled with different quantities of water can be
set up as a ‘Jal Taranga’
SPACE
To organize classrooms or other space where no separate hall is available rearrange
the desks and chairs to create some empty space in the classroom or get access to
an open space. The children should remove their shoes and put them outside in a
proper row. They should sit in circles or as desired by the teacher.
In fact we can turn any space — a floor or a terrace into stage. If we plan the
presentation and the seating arrangement for the audience wisely many types of
space can be utilized. Sometimes, a part of the school premises can serve as an
excellent setting for a play, like staircase, corridor, verandah with pillars, and a
place with a tree or a wall in the background wonderfully suitable for stage-
setting . A proper electric power point should be functional in a classroom. This
would enable the use of a tape recorder/ computer (whichever is available). Let
them listen to music or watch some CDs on dance/ theatre.
When the weather is pleasant you can conduct art activity in the school grounds
also. In outdoor session you can take advantage of the trees and flowers, using
them as a backdrop for the activity being done. The children can also imitate
elements of music, dance and theatre that they find in nature. Activity carried out
under the umbrella of the blue sky, make the children participate happily.
If we have an auditorium we can think of using it innovately every time. To do

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