Join us for YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series: Workshop 4: “Fun at the Zoo” (Motor Skills) on Sunday, December 4th 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 4: “Fun at the Zoo” (Motor Skills)
They all asked for you! Standing on one foot, bending, reaching, and walking in circles are important benchmarks for developing motor skills at this age. Let us show you how to get your child’s muscles moving as we mimic animals while singing and parading.
Caregiver Connection Card:
“Fun at the Zoo” (Motor skills)
By now your child has more control over the larger, stronger muscle groups of their body. They are walking, running, skipping around, and maybe even attempting to dress themselves. Among other things, your child is developing balance and coordination, strength and endurance, and body awareness. Using these large muscle groups (that is, exercising gross motor skills) enables your child to perform everyday functions and will affect their ability to use small muscle groups (utilizing fine motor skills). That is why active play that uses the large muscles in their legs, arms, and trunk is important for good health, as well as physical and cognitive development.
MAIN PROP: Zoo Animal Finger Puppets
TIPS: Yoga is a great activity to help with balance. Many yoga poses have names to help simplify the understanding of the pose, like “tree pose” or “downward-facing dog.”
SONG: "Audubon Zoo "Parade" (Here come the animals marching, marching, here come the animals marching, marching/here they come now, here they come now/down at the Audubon zoo parade)
Alt. Prop: Play catch. Show your child how to hold out their hands and throw a ball directly, and gently, into them. Start out standing close together. As your child gets better, move farther away.
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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.
