{"id":37010,"date":"2019-04-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/artsy-thursday-woyc2019-3\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:18:20","slug":"artsy-thursday-woyc2019-3","status":"publish","type":"thread-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/artsy-thursday-woyc2019-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Artsy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog_content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/content\/thread\/blog\/Artsy Thursday.jpg?Action=thumbnail&amp;algorithm=fill_proportional&amp;width=800\" width=\"800\" style=\"margin: auto\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re celebrating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naeyc.org\/events\/woyc\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Week of the Young Child<\/a> (WOYC) and today\u2019s theme\u2014Artsy<br \/>\n    Thursday\u2014is all about children getting creative.<\/p>\n<p>The 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<br \/>\n    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<br \/>\n    develop fine motor skills, critical thinking skills, social skills, and problem solving skills.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Try this.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Provide young children with a variety of art materials such as paper, clay, crayons, paint, glue, string, or dry pasta. Let them decide which materials<br \/>\n    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<br \/>\n    child\u2019s artwork helps them feel valued and proud of their accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Visit NAEYC.org for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naeyc.org\/events\/woyc\/plan-your-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artsy Thursday Resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to show off what your children created today? Share it with us on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/threadalaska.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><strong> or <\/strong>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/threadalaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong> <\/a><strong> using the hashtag #woyc19.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Early educators<\/strong>, take advantage of a free Penn State Better Kid Care distance education module this month! Now through April 26, 2019,<br \/>\n    the module &#8220;Online Learning: Best Practices to Maximize Professional Development&#8221; is free of charge. <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bkc-od\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more at http:\/\/bit.ly\/bkc-od.<\/a>    <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n                <\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_tags":[27,29],"event_category":[],"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-37010","thread-blog","type-thread-blog","status-publish","hentry","news_tags-alaska","news_tags-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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-woyc2019-3\/\" \/>\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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