Introduction: Art as literacy -- Children drawing -- Planning for pets -- Face painting -- From snowman to snow lady -- Decorating a clay butterfly -- Twos paint with water-Mark vs medium -- Zenia painting -- Vampires -- Big baby-Adult's role in pretend play -- Birthday song -- She changes her movements to fit the music -- Appendix
Summary
When children draw, paint, pretend, sing, sculpt, mime, and dance they are in effect creating symbols that express their understanding of the physical and social world. Therefore we can treat their work as an early form of literacy. Through a study of their art expressions we learn how child communicate their understanding of the world to others and to oneself
