| Room | | | | process, focusing their minds on something else, |
| | | | all the while looking at their art work from a |
| Children’s Easels should be implemented | | | | different context, angle and distance. This process |
| into art rooms at school. Children’s Easels | | | | of stepping back from your work or even leaving |
| are also a better platform for the making of art | | | | it completely for a time causes artists to take |
| and help heighten awareness and attention for | | | | their creativity and talent a step further. |
| visual arts education. Working upright, standing, | | | | Art educators have differing opinions regarding |
| and being able to step back and look at your | | | | Childrens Easels as opposed to art tables in |
| work, make the Children’s Easel an ideal | | | | the classroom. Altogether they agree that the |
| working surface for a kids art class. This will help | | | | child getting the most out of their class and |
| with the ever growing class size and give you | | | | helping them to find their potential as artists is the |
| options for your classroom layout helping you | | | | most important thing. One element of concern |
| optimize your space for more effective learning | | | | regarding a Children’s Easel vs. a large class |
| and creativity. | | | | art table is organization and class room structure. |
| A Children’s Easel is the perfect answer to | | | | Some educators might think a class full of easels |
| the ever growing class size and really the best | | | | could be too chaotic and that the disorganization |
| surface too for your students to learn on. | | | | would cause kids to loose focus. However, the |
| Regardless of the age group, students that work | | | | contrary is true. Children’s Easels put out in |
| on a Children’s Easel are more likely to | | | | an organized way, for example, putting them all in |
| become engaged and passionate about their work. | | | | a circle, allows the teacher to walk all the way |
| The Children’s Easel creates a larger | | | | around the class instructing and encouraging one |
| atmosphere of learning and focused creativity. By | | | | student at a time. It also allows for the students |
| standing up a child’s work space is naturally | | | | to take a look around at their classmates’ |
| bigger and in a classroom setting their spaces | | | | work. Whether they are focused on a still life or |
| may even overlap which can encourage them to | | | | not, this is a highly effective class structure for |
| see one another’s art work, and to inspire | | | | children’s easels. There are many other |
| each other. | | | | ways to set up your classroom, rows, squares or |
| A Children’s Easel is not new concept, they | | | | even clusters. Not all Children’s Easels are |
| have been becoming ever more popular over the | | | | one sided. Some are double sided, some are even |
| past 20 or so years. These Children’s | | | | four sided making room for even more class |
| Easels and Creation Stations originated with the | | | | room set up possibilities. |
| hope that children drawing and coloring on their | | | | Another misconception about Children’s |
| Children’s Easels would become more | | | | Easels is that cleaning up after the class, folding up |
| involved in the paintings and projects they were | | | | the easels and putting them away is too much |
| creating. The main reason being that creating art | | | | work. If you are using Children’s Easels |
| from a standing position allows your whole body | | | | that require being folded up and stored away |
| to be involved in the process. For children with a | | | | everyday, try assigning the students their own |
| lot of energy a children’s easel is perfect. | | | | children’s easel for the year, giving them |
| Not only does it allow them to paint more wildly, | | | | some responsibility for it in much the same way |
| but the fact that their painting is right in front of | | | | as there desks in the classroom, or like their |
| their face helps them become less distracted. | | | | textbook. Have an inspection in the beginning and |
| Contrast this to the level of distraction that can | | | | at the end of the year and set up some penalties |
| be found on an art table where a child is more | | | | for mistreated easels. |
| prone to starring at and joking with their buddies | | | | When choosing your Children’s Easel, make |
| next to them and across from them. Another | | | | sure you look into all the different types. They |
| reason behind introducing the Children’s | | | | are not all the same. Some fold up small and are |
| Easel is that a child can more easily step away | | | | very portable, some have wheels and are more |
| from and return to a work in progress. An art | | | | mobile, and many Children’s Easels can |
| teacher sensing that a child is stuck, can instruct | | | | even accommodate several kids at once, including: |
| them to move on to something completely | | | | Double Sided, Four Sided, and even Six Station |
| different, intending for the child to return to their | | | | Children’s Easels. I’m sure you will |
| work at a later date. They will be able to step out | | | | find the perfect one to suit your needs. |
| of their potentially frustrating or stalled creative | | | | |