Join us for YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series: Workshop 6: “Wild at Art!” (Imaginative play) on Sunday, December 18th at 10:30 AM CST in the Drumsville Exhibition, (circular room), on the 2nd floor of the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
The YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series Workshops are for early learners up to age five.
The workshops will be taught by artist Joel Wilson.
The 30-minute workshops allow children to explore, observe and investigate their world and the museum through song, dance, and movement experiences. Now in its seventh year, YALA Artsplay!™ Presented by The Helis Foundation is engaging families with infants and toddlers through multi-sensory interactive sessions at local cultural, arts, and history institutions. Caregivers learn how they can use arts strategies to promote childhood development in their everyday life. Our community partners include the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans African American Museum, Newcomb Art Museum, and the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
This free 6-part workshop series is made possible by The Helis Foundation. The workshops provide engaging arts-based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts to promote early learning. Lessons are conducted by certified Louisiana Wolf Trap Teaching Artists, who have expertly crafted multi-sensory experiences that foster children’s natural curiosity for learning. After each workshop, children and their caregivers can download digital Caregiver Connection Cards for tips on how workshop activities can be continued at home. Watch all the videos in the series again by following us on YouTube (@youngaudiencesla).
Workshop 6: “Wild at Art!” (Imaginative play)
Get your “paint brushes” ready. Imaginative play helps your child to process the world around them. Explore colors through drama, with a pretend painting activity that is mess-free! Learn how to engage your child’s creative side through imaginary play.
Caregiver Connection Card:
“Wild at Art!” (Language Skills)
Does your child have a new friend that only they can see or talk to? Help to encourage and extend their rich pretending. This is the age where your child's imaginative play will include even more elaborate make-believe scenarios, with extended storylines and lots of character-acting. This is also the age for children to create imaginary friends. Not only are they flexing their creative muscles, but this type of imaginative play is teaching problem-solving. It also helps to increase complex representational and symbolic thinking. Imaginative play gives threes and fours the opportunity to express their feelings and test out roles and situations.
MAIN PROP: Mini Paint Container
TIPS: You can use the eagerness to play new roles to help your child express emotions. Roleplaying that specifically encourages emotional expression helps your child use her body to better understand her own feelings (and the feelings of others).
SONG: “This Is the Way" (This is the way we paint, paint, paint/paint, paint, paint/paint, paint, paint/this is the way we paint, paint, paint/with our imaginations)
Alt. Prop: Explore how to make learning fun while honing your little one’s imaginative thinking and creativity through imagination games. Using a simple cardboard box, your child can explore and create entire worlds and experiences.
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*We will have YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series at the New Orleans Jazz Museum sessions every Sunday in November and December except for November 27th and December 25th.
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November 6 - Workshop 1 - "1-2-3, Count WIth Me" (Math Foundations)
November 13 - Workshop 2 - "Pass It Along" (Social Skills)
November 20 - Workshop 3 - “Opposites Attract” (Word Relations)
December 4 - Workshop 4 - “Fun at the Zoo” (Motor Skills)
December 11 - Workshop 5 - “Mirror, Mirror” (Social Emotional Skills)
December 18 - Workshop 6 - “Wild at Art!” (Imaginative play)
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Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) was founded in 1962 to bring chamber musicians into local classrooms. Over the years YALA has adapted and evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of youth throughout the state, becoming the leading provider of arts education and integration programs in the state of Louisiana. We offer a comprehensive and creative approach to educating children. Fortified with 60 years of experience, we draw upon our region’s strong culture to provide young people with tools to impact their worlds using art. Through our school performances, arts-integrated residencies, extended learning programs, community workshops, and professional learning for teachers and teaching artists, we not only impact the children of New Orleans, but make intentional contact with the influential adults in their lives.
