AT C&K Tewantin Community Childcare Centre, staff believe art education is an important part of children’s development.
Art can improve children’s learning skills, critical thinking skills and creativity.
Staff at the centre are also great believers in looking at what materials they have in the waste every day and developing ways they can recycle, reuse and recreate using these products.
So many of the artworks use recycled products.
The centre embraces the loose parts theory which was first designed by architect Simon Nicolson in the 1970s.
This theory embraces the notion that materials should have no specific purpose and can be redesigned, recreated and re-imagined anyway you choose.
During the year they worked on many art projects and had artists visit the centre helping children to learn more about art by completing artworks within their room.
Some of the artists completed works in collaboration with the children, while other artists demonstrated how they complete their own artworks so the children can learn how art is created, the tools artists use and different techniques and methods artists use.
These experiences inspired the children to develop their own art further and understand the correlation between the materials they are already using and the artworks they see displayed in the world around them.
On Sunday 11 December, in conjunction with the Noosa Art Gallery, the children at the C&K Tewantin Community Childcare Centre unveiled their own art show and showcased some of the projects they worked on throughout the year.
