Learning Areas: Art, ECSEL, Music
What is this activity?
What skills are being enhanced? What knowledge is gained?
What do you need to prepare for this activity?
Step by step guide
What questions can you ask to promote ECSEL thinking and discussions?
How can you extend children’s thinking?
What skills are being enhanced and what knowledge is being gained through this activity?
Self-Awareness, Self-Management
Use the following materials to prepare for the activity:
Scribble Art
1. Sometimes, your students will need to release some pent up energy. Scribble Art gives young students the freedom to release this energy in an artistic way.
2. Have each student sit in front of a piece of art paper that is fastened either to a table or the floor with masking tape.
3. Lay out an array of colorful pencils or crayons for children to choose from and have them color freely while you help them to identify and regulate their emotions as they work.
4. Play a variety of music during this activity to further convey or evoke emotions
ECSEL prompts are helpful questions or statements you can use to promote children’s thinking about emotions. These prompts are related to this specific activity.
I see you are smiling! That tells me you are feeling happy while drawing.
I see you are furrowing your brows. That tells me you are feeling angry while drawing.
Is drawing while listening to music making you feel happy and calm? I see your face looks calm.
Use these questions and statements to extend children’s learning!
Use Our Early Emotions Cards with children to strengthen emotional identification: “I saw that you were feeling happy when you were drawing! See? This is what happy looks like!” (repeat with other emotions)