Wonder Art Workshop: Creative Child-Led Experiences for Nurturing Imagination, Curiosity, and a Love of Learning

The Wonder Art Workshop is sheer brilliance. It is written with clarity and easy to implement tools that can be adapted for home, classroom or studio use. With stunning photography and beautiful vignettes of children experiencing the wonder of process and play based art, not only does this text truly honor the child as the artist he or she naturally is, it also reignites that sense of wonder and creative flow in the guiding adult!

After renting this book from our local library, I decided to purchase. Filled with creative ideas for little ones for art projects and exploration. Looking forward to introducing the wonderful world of art to our children.

Love this book and it's own to earth approach to children and art. Common and natural materials are used in unique art projects that will leave the children full of wonder!!! I have followed this author for years and she is amazing!

This is very focused on allowing children to explore with different art supplies, often mixing in items you wouldn't usually consider an art supply. I appreciate that they encourage you to step back and let the kids make whatever they want, don't rush in and 'fix' it. I don't get some of the stuff they tell you to try, though. Mixing crushed eggshells into your paint or flower petals into clay or paint doesn't appeal to me. I also think it's a little weird to paint shoes and glue feathers, beads and pompoms to it. They do have some interesting projects: I like the tube sculptures. They punch holes in paper towel tubes and the kids paint them and build with them by connecting them with straws. I also like the wood loose parts self portraits. I'm not sure where you find a bunch of wood slices like that but then you glue soda tabs or paper clips or screws on to make faces. I think the kids would cruise through that project unless you have a lot of wood. Story blocks are empty CD cases that the kids draw on with sharpies and then glue tissue paper to. I suppose it all depends on what you are hoping to get out of it. I think it would be better for younger children who are just trying to figure out art. Older kids would probably feel like they were just making ugly junk.

Bought this book to inspire both our early years and lower elementary teachers and they have loved it! The book is practical and theoretical- giving you ideas of what to do but also why you might do it. It is also beautiful.

This book is a chuck full of tips that I will be able to use right away in the classroom. From little songs to encourage caring for materials to ideas on how to store art materials, to pedagogical gems! I just enjoy it! And the pictures are gorgeous!

We used this book as a resource while presenting on process art vs. product art. I loved it, there are so many great ideas. This book was thought provoking on how we do art with children.

I absolutely adore this beautiful book that emphasizes process over product. I use this in my PreK classroom daily!!!

I love this approach. Let children be free to imagine and create, rather than having them make identical paper plate crafts.

Wunderbare Anregungen um creativ mit Kindern zu arbeiten! Das tollste Buch seit langem. Würde ich sofort wieder kaufen. Sollte in keiner Kita/Krippe fehlen!

This book had been vital for preparing my Bilingual creative writing and visual storytelling workshops! Wonder Art Workshop, is an amazing book, full of creative ideas and resources for teachers, parents and art facilitators. Based on creative Child-Led Experiences for Nurturing Imagination, Curiosity, and Unlock literacy play! I'm so grateful to Sally Haughey for this stunning book.

Wonderful book! Love it. ❤️

Great content by Sally. An introduction on what is wonder led teaching and then a book packed with super colourful and fun activities to try. Feels like a little treasure. Love it!