Transient Art

Transient art is non-permanent, constantly evolving and process orientated creativity in action. When children work on transient art projects they manipulate, explore and experiment as they work individually or collaboratively, on either large- or small- scale artworks using loose parts.

What learning might you see?

Playing and exploring – engagement

Finding out and exploring

Playing with what they know

Being willing to ‘have a go’

Active learning – motivation

Being involved and concentrating

Keeping trying

Enjoying achieving what they set out to do

Creating and thinking critically – thinking

Having their own ideas

Making links

Choosing ways to do things

So many of these are visible as children create – often all of them!

As well as this you might see:

Maths – patterns, sometimes symmetry, lines, tessellation, size, positional language, counting, sorting and classifying, combining and separating, one-to-one correspondence, space, shape, measure

Language – stories are often told as the materials are arranged

Scientific concepts – material description, physical properties, developing wonder and curiosity

Physical development – fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination

Creativity

Imagination

Decision making