The Savvy Quiz for your child
Visual Arts:

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There's a reason that kitchens everywhere are adorned with artwork made by preschool children rather than by their parents. Young children are so spontaneous and expressive in their artwork that it really seems that we grownups are the ones who should be taking lessons from them. But what's really fun is making and looking at art together. Show them pictures in books, museums, or your own albums and be amazed at what they notice. Set up an art corner in your house, and be delighted by the stream of strange and lovely images they produce. Looking for more ways to develop your own little artist's skills and spark her creativity? Let's see what she can do already, and where her imagination might take her next.

My child can attend to visual detail of objects and images (e.g., play games requiring matching of like images such as dominoes, identify the color of objects from nature when not in view, remember what someone out of view is wearing, etc.).


    Not yet Sometimes Consistently Don't know

    My child can explore and create using how many of the following art forms, media, and techniques?


    • Tear
    • Fold
    • Cut
    • Tape
    • Paste / glue
    None 1-2 3-5 Don't know

    My child can intentionally make how many of the following motifs?


    • Horizontal line
    • Vertical line
    • Diagonal Line
    • Circle
    • Spiral
    • Cross
    • Hook
    • Cane
    • Bowl
    • Bridge
    • Wave
    • Star
    0-3 4-6 7-12 Don't know

    My child shows an appreciation for art by creating both realistic and abstract works with paint, print, drawing, collage, and sculpture.


      Not yet Occasionally Often Don't know

      My child can describe how colors create different feelings.


        Not yet Sometimes Consistently Don't know

        My child observes and talks about art (e.g., first impressions, what the picture makes the child think and feel, lines and colors, etc.).


          Not yet Sometimes Consistently Don't know

          Your Savvy Quiz Progress

          0% Total % of Questions Answered to Date:

          Visual Arts:0%
          Language Development:0%
          Oral language: 0%
          Nursery rhymes, poems, fingerplays and songs: 0%
          Storybook reading and storytelling: 0%
          Emerging literacy skills in reading and writing: 0%
          Scientific Reasoning and the Physical World:0%
          Music:0%
          Mathematical Reasoning and Number Sense:0%
          Patterns and Classification: 0%
          Geometry: 0%
          Measurement: 0%
          Numbers and number sense: 0%
          Computation: 0%
          Autonomy and Social Skills:0%
          Movement and Coordination:0%
          Orientation in Time and Space:0%

          The Savvy Quiz is adapted from The Core Knowledge Foundation's Preschool Sequence