It is based in this wonderful book by Hervé Tullet.

The workshop just requires some simple materials that we all have at home.

It is very inspiring to see how just three colors and a simple circle form is used in such creative ways, including flying circles.

It was an hour of pure fun!

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Garabato is the Spanish word for doodle, and Rita uses this extraordinary book to start her class. Created by the Pedagogic Department of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, it explores doodles through art history, including works by Spanish artists like Antonio Saura or Antoni Tàpies.  You can purchase this fascinating book at: Museo Reina Sofía

Garabato teaches children the importance of drawing and how great painters have used  this same technique in extraordinary ways.

Rita María Noguera conducts this workshop using very simple materials, letting the children use them in a creative way with fascinating results.

It is very difficult to resume Rita’s classes, so I trully recommend that you enjoy with your kids some of her workshops.

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I kindly asked Rita if she would like to answer some of my questions for WorldKids, which I hope you will find interesting:

Rita, which is in your opinion the most important benefit of the Arts for kids? 

Encouraging creativity has multiple benefits in children:  identification of feelings and emotions, development of abstract reasoning, better peer relations and whole child development. In my workshops their artistic sensibility, self-esteem and sociability is strengthened. We also focus on learning and training the basic elements of listening and visual language, that will allow them in the future to create and express themselves.

At what age would you recommend that children are enrolled in artistic workshops?

Music programs are suitable for 6 month old babies, and plastic and creativity workshops for toddlers (18 to 24 months). My activities are for a reduced number of children and their parents. It is important that they are together and that they share these activites (gross motor development, cognitive habitilities, concentration, active listening). During the classroom we can all communicate with each other, socialize, express our feelings and create.

Why is it important to teach children to be creative? 

It is important to encourage creativity in children, and also in the adults that attend my workshops, through story telling and picture works by different painters and styles. In my class, children are allowed to imagine, and to feel free, unique and special, by experimenting with color, textures and materials.

Thank you Rita for sharing your inspiring thoughts with us! We will always treasure your workshops in our memories!

Please do not miss our next post in which we will feature two workshops with Rita Noguera for small children.

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