[R]On Saturday, besides keeping the things very open, there were still limitations. Limitations in terms of visual vocabulary, lack of structure. After getting the feedback from children about why they felt uncomfortable/frustration to do visuals-it came out that children were not clear with what they were expected to do. They have very limited visual vocabulary so something was required to push up their visualization.
[C]Arzu suggested, I should give them some painting to refer to and let them select some works from textiles that they think relates to their work, then tell them to draw from the painting and a piece of textile they like. I chose a painting by Kandinsky, {which had various forms and it gave a feeling of patch work} and gave them few textile books to choose one piece of work from it. They will start seeing the transformation designs through textiles.
[T]Children chose paintings according to the emotions they had chosen on Saturday. By choosing the paintings and a piece of textile work helped them build their own ideas, it opened them to use lines in different ways, they thought about what color they want to use for which emotion.
There was a jump in learning for children. They moved up from the level they were on Saturday. I realized I was being too rigid with the idea of letting them have their visuals first, then let them start with embroidery. In a conversation with Arzu about letting them start even if their visual is not complete would be ok, let their needle be the tool to continue their visuals rather than limiting them to use colors to finish the visual.
Thank you Arzu :)
color circles with younger kids
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