School Drawing Enrichment Program

KidsArt offers an on-site school drawing enrichment program to public and private schools. Trained KidsArt teachers travel to each school site and teach a forty-five minute or one hour class to preschool, elementary and junior high school age students. KidsArt supplies all information and registration materials to parents, takes care of class lists, and all administration for the classes.

In Southern California, the school drawing enrichment program is available to any schools that are interested in implementing it. Classes can be taught during the school day or after regular school hours, with hours being flexible according to teacher availability.

Students learn a realistic drawing program, using drawing mediums such as colored pencils, markers, watercolor pencils, oil pastels and crayons. Curriculum is varied to include teaching still-life, the figure, landscape, portraiture, cartooning, animation, clay sculpture, and more. This high quality fine art program offers art instruction that goes way beyond cut and paste, and arts & crafts. It teaches a student how to "see" in a new way, and offers basic understanding of how to draw.

Realistic drawing skills help strengthen confidence, which in turn lessens frustration when students are asked to draw pictures for school reports that they have no training to accomplish. KidsArt drawing instruction helps students avoid continual dissatisfaction with their artistic abilities, so that they will not eventually give up pursuing art as a viable interest. Drawing is a learned subject, just like any other. The misconception that one ought to be able to just know how to draw (or not), leads to teachers giving drawing assignments without offering any artistic training. It is no different from asking students to do complicated math problems before you have taught them how to add and subtract. Teachers would never expect a student to be able to master math, reading, or writing without first teaching the basics of those subjects. Drawing is no different; particularly when students are asked to draw very specific, realistic objects or scenes.

It is not something most people think about, but if you ask adults to draw something, inevitably the majority will say, "I can't draw a straight line!" Why is this? Because they had very little or no quality fine art drawing instruction in their youth! This then led to them getting frustrated at some point with trying to draw something that didn't look the way they thought it should. And so...they made up their minds they were not artistic and that was the end of that! Giving kids a chance to avoid this outcome is easily achievable with quality fine art instruction.

For more information on our School Drawing Enrichment Program, please call:

Southern California Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, and Vicinity (818)248-2574 kaenrichment@sbcglobal.net