Ephemeral Art

Recently teachers have become really aware of ephemeral art happening around the Kindergarten since Tracey returned from the NZK conference and shared her learning around this type of art.

Ephemeral art is a creation that is transitory and exists only breifly. 

Above is an example of Ruby's art, where she removed some sea shells to create another brief piece of art work. 

Throughout our Kindergarten environment we have a varity of natural resources for children to use in their play. Teachers have been setting up tables with lots of different natural resources and different presenting surfaces for children to freely explore the possibilites of ephemeral art. Children work very carefully as they place the different natural materials on to their work surface, demonstrating wonderful creativity! Tino pai rawa atu - absolutely awesome. I am sure you will agree that the piece of art that the children are creating are just that, awesome!

Lets see if children continue to transfer this art from table top to their play in different areas of the Kindergarten.

We also wonder if some children would be interested in planning forward and sharing some ideas for different natural resources that could be used for their ephemeral art. Maybe there might be some at home, at Kindergarten or even in the wider community that we can collect on an excursion.