how would spong painting promote children’s sensory and intellectual development?.?

Answer 1

Spinge painting is an excellent way to promote children's sensory and intellectual development.

It is a very tactile form of art that they really feel it happening as they do it. The child becomes part of the artwork as they make it. Mostly they will end up with paint on their fingers and feel how that is and they will gain stimulation from that too.

Visually they see what happens when colours overlap or are pressed into one another and they see the shapes that can be made depending on how many times the press the sponge onto the paper and how bigger shapes can be made by adding shapes together.

auditorily they hear the squelching of the paint on the paper and in the paint.

Intellectually they are acquiring information about shape and colour and texture and form that can not really be taught by lecture only by experience.

For children with visual impairment try using fluorescent paints under a 'black' light (the kind banks use to check signatures) The colours really stand out under the light and take on a three dimensional appearance.

The use of sponges cut to various standard shapes also adds to the learning and tactile experience. Try using sponges cut to circle, square, triangle for little kids (2-3) and as the age increases use more shapes. Try rectangle, star, hexagon

Answer 2

Depending on their age, it is likely to help develop hand/eye coordination, relationships of colour and space, if done in pairs or in a group will influence social developement and skills. This last point alone is one of the fastest ways of building new neural connections-lots and lots of co-operative physical and mental interactions. There are ancillary things like developing instinct for composition and also artistic appreciation. This is like mental investment for the future, setting foundations for various possible future talents.

Answer 3

Reading, talking a lot, ask them questions about the people they see every day: how do they look, how is their hair... Play with sand and water, bubbles. Plant something together if you have a garden. Make them tear newspapers from the top to the bottom. Make little balls with pieces of soft paper. Visit botanical gardens, the zoo, the airport, a harbor, places where they could watch machines.