The New Zealand Art
Activity Book – new editionPublished by Te Papa Press
ISBN: 978-0-9941362-3-7
160 pages, paperback, $29.99
Te
Papa Press has launched a new art activity book that promises to boost
children’s creativity while giving them a gentle art history lesson.
The
Te Papa pieces sit alongside page works specially commissioned from 15
contemporary New Zealand artists and a range of fun art activities designed to encourage
children to learn a variety of different creative processes, in the school or
at home.
“All
teachers understand that hands-on art activities play a central role in
children’s learning and development,” says Helen. “But I’m aware that time for
art in the classroom can sometimes feel squeezed by core subjects like literacy
and numeracy, and primary teachers often have limited training about how to
teach art. Therefore books like this are a valuable resource that can be used
at home or in school to develop children’s creativity.”
With
the assistance of Te Papa’s Senior Curator Art, Sarah Farrar, Helen has
selected artworks that will allow children to explore both historic and
contemporary art, art made with a variety of different materials and
techniques, and by Māori, Pākehā, Pacific and New Zealand Asian artists, some
familiar and others lesser known.
In
addition to the English text, Māori and Pacific phrases are used throughout the
new edition, helping children to expand their language skills while they learn
about New Zealand artists and explore different ways to create art.
The
book’s hands-on creative activities are designed so that children can
experiment with similar ideas or techniques to those used in the featured
artworks. “By answering the questions I’ve posed about each of the artworks,
children will be encouraged to look really closely, develop their visual
literacy skills and think about what art means,” Helen Lloyd says.
‘Unlike other generic
art activity books, this one gives you (and your child) something worth its
weight in gold: a concise visual history of Māori made art, modernist and
post-modernist art of Aotearoa, New Zealand,’ said the Waikato Times
of the first edition. The new edition delivers the same outcome.
teacher with a visual art and art history degree and a Master’s in museum and
gallery education. Helen has 20 years’ experience of teaching art to children of
all ages in schools, museums and galleries in the United Kingdom, Russia and
New Zealand, including Te Papa, where she held the position of Senior Education
Programmer. She also authored the first New Zealand Art Activity Book and has
written and developed the new edition in consultation with Sarah Farrar, Senior
Curator Art at Te Papa.
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