AIMS OF CREATIVE WORKSHOPS WITH ELEMENTS OF AN ENGLISH OR SPANISH LANGUAGE.
The area of creative thinking
- Developing visual and spatial imagination
- Stimulating and developing creative thinking to be fluent, flexible and original through training such intellectual processes as: associative, analogical, metaphorical, abstract and deductive thinking
- Training symbolic thinking
- Training synesthesia, sinectics and problem solving attitude
- Increasing observation skills
- Encouraging creative activity in everyday life
- Experiencing art correspondence
The area of artistic competence and skills
- Developing visual aesthetic sensitivity
- Creating conditions for artistic expression by means of different art techniques
- Training, increasing and improving such artistic skills as: drawing, painting, sculpting, designing, making 3D works using differentiated art media
- Teaching the ability of composing a work of art and using perspective and colour
- Increasing manual ability
The cognitive area
- Acquiring various branches of art and chosen works of art (reproductions or originals if possible) from different sides of the world
- Experiencing a universal character of peoples’ communication through art
- Deriving inspiration from different sources with the emphasis on the role of nature
- Making children aware of their cultural, slovakian roots and its value
- Using a foreign language (English) as an added value
The area of emotional and social skills
- Experiencing the joy of a creative process and then a final effect
- Developing empathy and active listening skills
- Building and strenghtening self esteem on the ground of one’s own creative abilities and the feeling of identity
- Shaping open – mindness and tolerance
- Training the ability to cooperate in a group
- Creating circumstances and prompting children to participate actively in cultural life
- Nurturing a spiritual sphere and experiencing a therapeutical character through contact with art
What cannot be missing
- The atmosphere of Joy – this special emotion makes children continue to create
- Curiosity and interest in creativity
- No – criticism rule towards turning up ideas
- Creativity ond open – mindness of the teacher