The program of the Festival of Art of a Little Child is addressed to children aged 3 to 10 years, includes children from schools and kindergartens from all over Poland.
Every year in the Festival are participating together about four thousand children and over 400 teachers from Poland. The Jubilee 15 years of existence we would like to expand the operation of the festival and present the idea of the international community

 

For years, we have put the objectives:
- Interests issues of creativity of young children and ways of awakening children's creativity and methods of its development.
- Integrating communities involved in the creative development of young children.
- Exchange of experience between the centers of art and culture and schools. Encourage to dialogue, to adapt offers and reinforcement of good practices in their operation.
- Promote among teachers, innovative ideas, forms and techniques of creative activities.
- Every year there is a different clue word - issue connected with childhood education, giving the possibility of creative exploration of the child and the teacher.

 

History of the festival

The festival has taken part every year  since 2000. Every year, there is promoted a different clue word, that promotes all the festival activities. Until now, there were:

• HOME, a child, stories, dreams

• tree,

• traveling,

• time,

• treasures

• happiness

• dream

• gardens

• animals

• shapes

• playground

• universe

• differently

• together

• light

 

The formula of the festival includes the following projects:

1. Opening Session festival for teachers
This event is opening the festival struggles of children and teachers, which is also the introduction to the new edition, as well as a reminder of the previous one. In the session held at the Museum in Lodz is presented workshop led by animators museum education. Not only a previous multimedia presentation takes place but also lecture lead by representatives of science education who look after children’ improvement of kids creativity.

 

 

Creative workshops for children and teachers.
It is a series of meetings with art in institutions there  are invited classes and groups supervised by teachers who had applied to participate in the workshop. In each edition there are about 40 such workshops that involve almost 1,000 children. These workshops are open, which means that they can also take part in them teachers on the basis of demonstration activities.

 

Art competition for children
The competition is open to children aged 3 to 10 years.
Children send their works made in any technique. The jury chooses all as the winners, guiding by our motto that "seeking child should not be subjected to classification". The summary of artistic activities is an exhibition in Lodz Museum. It opens with a festive event where prizes for an art contest are given. Prepared exhibition presents young artists’ works.

 

The competition for teachers and animators to develop a lesson plan of creative activities with children
For all teachers and facilitators who work with groups of children under the age of 10 participating in this contest it is an opportunity to showcase their own experiences.
The subject of the competition is to present own concept of teaching in a lesson plan of creative activities for younger children. Reported presentations can be in different stages of development within the framework of the festival password.

 

 

Overview of the small stage forms
Children in two age categories guided by their teachers, prepare the artistic program, ie. A thumbnail, show, song or instrumental. During the hearing held little artists (all get diplomas and small prizes), which will emerge the winners. The best present their skills in a gala concert, which will take place on a large theatrical stage.

 

 

Outdoor Garden Fine
The event takes the form of the fair, where over 780 children also participate in various workshops, actively creating work, finding common dimension several areas of work. It is a fun with an interesting material for children, the sounds of original instruments, circus arts, that's all you can feel the true joy of creation. This wonderful adventure with art held outdoors which enriches educational value of the event and imposes entirely different style of work with the child.

 

The catalogue contains a summary of completed workshops
and a list of winners
It is a publication containing the achievements of each festival.
Including a brief descriptions and photos of the workshops, highlighted essays, descriptions of award-winning lesson plans submitted by teachers. The printed directory is also a full list of the children featured in an art competition and there are pictures of the winning works. Product being a summary of the Festival of Art of a Little Child is also the evaluation of the educational project.