Aloha Kids' Art offers an on-site school enrichment program to public and private schools. Trained KidsArt teachers travel to each school and take a an hour's class to preschool, elementary and junior school students. Kids' Art supplies all information and registration material to parents and takes care of the class curriculum.
The school enrichment program is available to all schools across India. Classes are taught during the school day or after regular school hours, with the hours being flexible according to teacher availability.
Students learn a realistic drawing program, using drawing media such as oil pastels, crayons and water colours. The curriculum is varied to include lessons on different images, figures, landscape, cartooning, animation and more. This high quality, fine-art program offers art instruction that goes way beyond cut and paste, and arts & crafts. It teaches a student to "see" things in a new way and offers basic understanding on drawing skills.
Realistic drawing skills help strengthen confidence, which in turn lessens frustration when students are asked to draw pictures for school reports that they have no training to accomplish. Aloha Kids' Art helps students avoid continual dissatisfaction with their artistic abilities, so that they will not eventually give up pursuing art as a viable interest. Drawing is a learned subject, just like any other. The misconception that one ought to be able to just know how to draw (or not), leads to teachers giving drawing assignments without offering any artistic training. It is no different from asking students to do complicated math problems before you have taught them how to add and subtract. Teachers would never expect a student to be able to master math, reading, or writing without first teaching the basics of those subjects. Drawing is no different; particularly when students are asked to draw very specific, realistic objects or scenes.
It is not something most people think about, but if you ask adults to draw something, inevitably the majority will say, "I can't draw a straight line!" Why is this? Because they had very little or no quality, fine-art drawing instruction in their youth! This then, led to them getting frustrated at some point with trying to draw something that didn't look the way they thought it should. And so...they made up their minds they were not artistic and that was the end of that! Giving kids a chance to avoid this outcome is easily achievable with quality fine art instruction. And that's what Kids' Art is all about.
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