

Art Education: Nuturing Creative Capacity
There is a little girl in my life who I love profoundly. She is actively developing her sense of creativity in words and in art. In particular, she has a keen facility for color and shape. I want to nurture that. As we read stories, we not only focus on the words, but take time to examine the illustrations to cultivate an appreciation of the artist's work. At the local library's creative kid's morning, we were given a gopher puppet to color. She went straight for the or