{"id":37008,"date":"2018-04-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/artsy-thursday-2-2\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:18:17","slug":"artsy-thursday-2-2","status":"publish","type":"thread-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/artsy-thursday-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Artsy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog_content\">\n<p>\n\tWe\u2019re celebrating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naeyc.org\/events\/woyc\/overview\">Week of the Young Child<\/a> (WOYC) and today\u2019s theme\u2014Artsy Thursday\u2014is all about children getting creative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artsy Thursday during Week of the Young Child\" src=\"https:\/\/threadsandbox2.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/square-artsy-thursday1.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px;height: 303px;margin-top: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe best kinds of arts projects for young children are open-ended ones, where there is no pre-determined final product. The joy of open-ended art is in the process, not the product. Open-ended art allows children to make choices, use their imaginations, and create with their hands. Art also helps children develop fine motor skills, critical thinking skills, social skills, and problem solving skills.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tProvide young children with a variety of art materials such as paper, clay, crayons, paint, glue, string, or dry pasta. Let them decide which materials to work with and what they will create. Or try making a collage with items found outside, such as twigs, leaves, pinecones, or rocks. Displaying your child\u2019s artwork helps them feel valued and proud of their accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHead over to NAEYC.org for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naeyc.org\/events\/woyc\/resources\">Week of the Young Child Resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Want to show off what your children created today? Share it with us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/threadalaska.org\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/threadalaska\">Twitter<\/a> using the hashtag #woyc18.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_tags":[],"event_category":[],"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-37008","thread-blog","type-thread-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Artsy Thursday - Thread<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/artsy-thursday-2-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artsy Thursday - Thread\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019re celebrating the Week of the Young Child (WOYC) and today\u2019s theme\u2014Artsy Thursday\u2014is all about children getting creative. 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