Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Creativity. Chapter 2: The Creative Teacher. Chapter 3: The Role of Play. Chapter 4: Understanding the Visual Arts. Chapter 5: Creating Art. Chapter 6: Music, Music, Music. Chapter 7: Creative Movement: More Than the Hokey Pokey. Chapter 8: Creative Drama. Chapter 9: Creativity Across the Curriculum. Chapter 10: Integrating the Arts. Appendices: Appendix A: The Ducks that Could Not Swim. Appendix B: Rhymes and Finger Plays. Appendix C: Stories to Dramatize with Young Children. Appendix D: Primary Thematic Unit: Icky Sticky Fun! Glossary. Index.

Reviews

My overall impression of the text is that it is well-written covering the arts, not just the visual arts, but all of the arts.

Overall, I like this book. The content is interesting and presented in a very usable way. I am interested enough to look deeper into each chapter and find out what content is described and how the authors view each topic, such as play or creativity.

The greatest strengths of this text are: the wonderful activities that are included the open-ended art activities. It is very difficult to find open-ended art activities the clarity with which the author speaks uses language that students relate to easily this book is just the right length so that I can bundle it with another book and the cost is kept to a minimum for the students.

This book appears to be a very nice undergraduate text. It is well organized, and provides books, childrens literature, and web sites that are helpful at the end of each chapter some of the photographs are wonderful.