The more hands on you can get it the better. Or even participation.  I always try to get younger children to see the shapes. Circles,squares,triangles.  etc. In the example.  Maybe count the petals of a flower. Even if you could pass out a not very expensive flower and as a class take it apart slowly.   What shapes do they see etc???   Anything they can doe verbally or physically will keep their interest.  Hope this helps. Holly
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Subject: [SCIART] Drawing presentation to 3 year old preschoolers

Hi everyone,

I have an opportunity to make a short presentation (10-15 minutes) to my 
daughter's 3-year-old preschool class about being an artist. My question is for 
those of you with experience teaching/presenting to young kids...what do you 
focus on in such a short time for such a young audience? I do nature/botanical 
artwork as well as pen and ink house portraits and pet portraits, so I have a 
whole range of things I could present.

I was thinking of bring examples of my artwork and then some of my "tools" like 
my pencils, colored pencils, technical pens, markers to show them how you can 
draw differently with different materials. Maybe do a small demo - I have been 
doing a lot of botanicals lately, so maybe a simplified flower drawing or 
something?

I would welcome any tips or suggestions on what to do to make it an interesting, 
but not overwhelming presentation. Feel free to reply off-list if you like. 


Thanks in advance for any advice!
Carol

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