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Craft and art12/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The individualized process leads to an individual product. What matters is that it all pretty much looks the same, and that dictates that it's a craft or a direction-following activity.Ĭreative art is often individualized. If I've got up a bulletin board of snowmen pictures, and they all have three white circles and they all have an orange triangle on them somewhere and they all have two black eyes somewhere, it really doesn't matter that the orange triangle is coming out of the midsection. A lot of times with creative art, as an outside person you can't even tell what it's "supposed to be." That's why we really want to be careful about saying things like, "Oh, what is it?" or, "Oh, it looks like a cow, right?" Whereas with a craft, the outcomes will basically look the same. "Do I have a sunflower to show my mom when she comes to pick me up today?"Ĭreative art outcomes will look different. On the other hand, the goal of the craft is really that end product. The goal of creative art is the process of discovery, along with the opportunity to check out new stuff, try new materials, feel new media, see what it looks like on the paper, and see what it feels like when I squish it between my toes. Again, like I said, very good for developing those direction-following skills. Crafts are really great for giving a specific process of how we're going to do this. Sometimes with my teachers, I'll say, "If the child can't pinpoint his own art, that's a craft." Creative art develops coordination skills, like manipulating materials. ![]() That's not a bad thing, it's just not considered creative art.Ĭreative art develops feelings skills, including self-expression. You put the middle of the sunflower here, you put petals around the middle of the sunflower, the stem goes at the bottom, the stem has to be green, the leaf has to go on this side, it's very close-ended. That's not considered creative art, but that's considered a craft, or a direction-following activity.Īrt tends to have open-ended instruction where the teacher's more like the facilitator, using open-ended questions and asking questions like, "Hmm, I wonder what would happen if you did this?" Or, "Hmm, what do you think if we tried x, y, or z?" Whereas the craft is very close-ended. An example might be a sunflower, where the teacher has cut out the middle, the petals, and the stem, then the children glue it all together. A craft uses specific materials, and a lot of times, those specific materials are set up and created by the teacher. What's that end result?Ĭreative art uses basic materials, and a lot of times, it's depending upon what the child likes or what the child wants to use. We want children to be able to follow directions, but we just don't want to call that a creative art activity because it's not, it's a direction-following activity.Ī lot of times, creative art is unstructured, so there's not someone saying, "Okay, now mix that red and mix that yellow" and “Oh look, now you have orange." It's just kind of allowed to flow, whereas a craft is definitely more structured in that way. Creative art tends to be more process-oriented, versus the craft which tends to have the product as the main goal. A lot of times when teachers are doing craft projects, the main purpose behind a craft is actually direction-following, which is a great skill. ![]() Question What is the difference between a creative art experience and a craft? AnswerĪn art experience is considered open-ended, so there's not an end product that the teacher is looking for or that it has to look like, whereas a craft is goal-oriented. ![]()
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