Arts and Music

Colour, craft, rhythm and song.

By age: 0–2 · 3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17

Ages 0 to 2

A grown-up reads and plays along

• Shake, tap, clap about 10 minutes
• Big scribbles about 10 minutes
• Lullabies from many places about 10 minutes
• Dancing together about 10 minutes

Ages 3 to 5

Read and do together

• Mixing colours about 15 minutes
• Making a rhythm about 10 minutes
• Shapes in dough about 20 minutes
• Drawing a feeling about 15 minutes
• Collage with natural things about 20 minutes
• A song with actions about 10 minutes
• Printing with shapes about 20 minutes
• Dance like animals about 15 minutes
• Clay animals about 20 minutes
• Bird songs about 15 minutes
• Lines and dots about 15 minutes
• A puppet theatre about 25 minutes

Ages 6 to 8

Read together, then try alone

• Near and far in a drawing about 30 minutes
• Reading rhythms about 20 minutes
• Weaving paper about 30 minutes
• Singing in a round about 20 minutes
• Mixing colours about 25 minutes
• Drumming patterns about 20 minutes
• Pots from clay about 30 minutes
• Portraits of family about 25 minutes

Ages 9 to 12

Read alone or together

• Warm and cool colours about 40 minutes
• Writing a simple melody about 40 minutes
• Printmaking with foam about 45 minutes
• A Bible story as a short play about 50 minutes
• Perspective drawing about 35 minutes
• Reading simple music notation about 35 minutes
• Weaving and textile traditions about 40 minutes
• Harmony in a choir about 30 minutes

Ages 13 to 17

Read alone

• Photography: light and composition about 50 minutes
• Songwriting: words and structure about 55 minutes
• Design: type, layout and meaning about 55 minutes
• Telling a story on film about 60 minutes
• Reading a painting about 40 minutes
• Music and meaning about 40 minutes
• Architecture and sacred space about 40 minutes
• Giving and receiving critique about 35 minutes