Art Workshop in Kindergarten

It has been a great experience to organize the activity week for the kindergarten students. This activity was carried out for 8 hours but the planning ahead includes much more time. I was working with my friend Lena and in the few weeks before this event we were committed to organize meetings where we wold have planned our lessons. This resulted to be one of the most fundamental steps to reach the success our activity. Organization and communication between us two have been essential for us to be able to organize a well structured lesson. Especially in order not to bore the kids.

Collaboration was very important, it was easy to work with my friend because we knew each other already. Instead it was more challenging to work with the kindergarten teacher as we had to lead the lesson but at the same time make sure that they knew what was going on at everything instant. It was hard, but with some organization we managed to keep up with this challenge as well.

Many where the challenged we faced. For both of us it was the first time teaching a class and we did not really know how to act. It took us one lesson to adjust to our mistakes and learn from them. By the time we concluded the activity we definitely came out as more aware of how to teach a class of kindergarteners. It has been a very educative experience not only for the kids but for us two as well. 

In conclusion I have to admit that I learnt the difficulties of organizing a lesson, working cooperatively with other and planning ahead. The skills that I learnt in school to do so definitely helped me, but this experience pushed me to expand these skills, improve them and some of them: apply skills for the first time. 


We decided to base our lesson on the tale of the "Hungry Caterpillar". All the activities aimed to go through the life phases of a caterpillar: caterpillar, to cocoon, to butterfly. All these phases have been recreated through painting using all that was available. In the end all the art pieces have been hanged in the hallway for all the kids to admire their work.