Using Art and Craft in Language Teaching

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Putri Ristiana
Riris Aldila H. N.
Sella Safitri
Roisatul Mahfi

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ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF PGRI ADI BUANA
SURABAYA
2016
A. Definition of Art and Craft

Art is the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms,

movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically
the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. Craft is a particular
kind of skilled work. So, art and craft is an excellent way to facilitate the teachinglearning language to children.

B. Why Use Art and Craft in Language Teaching?

Classroom art and craft a year of activities is a hugely useful resource that
provides fun and easy art and craft projects to capture pupils interest and foster
excitement and creativity for the entire school year. (Lewis, 2010)
Using arts and crafts in the classroom can be an excellent way to facilitate
language learning with young learners.
Art can create bridges between thought, oral language and writing. This can
happen when students are:

Listening to, reading or writing instructions

Using their existing language skills

Learning new vocabulary

Receiving and giving praise and encouragement

Describing their ideas and plans

Evaluating what they have done

Expressing feelings.

Besides language learning, art and craft activities can help students to:
o Be more aware of the five senses and develop skills in using them

o Develop skills in comparing, contrasting, classifying, sequencing and

organising materials
o Acquire awareness of artistic forms and materials (shape colour, line, texture,
length, weight, movement, etc.) And skills in handling them
o Develop skills in problem solving
o Develop the ability to work with others, such as cooperation, sharing and
taking turns.

C. When and How to Use Art and Craft

When?
We use arts and crafts when the teaching-learning process is finished with one
topic. Or, we can use this in the middle of the teaching-learning process. It is used so
that the learners will interest in the material given by the teacher. It is also used to
improve the creativity of the learners.
How?
1. Make a sample
Make a sample of each craft piece before you introduce it to the class. This
will give you a good idea of how to prepare for each activity and how much
assistance the pupils will need to complete each. Having a sample ready also
allows for valuable discussion time, brainstorming ideas, and visualizing the
end result. The quality of pupils work will be much higher when they have a
visual aid to use as a reference for the steps of the process.
2. Odds and ends
Though Classroom art and crafta year of activities contains a variety of craft
types, there are materials that are common to many of the activities. Gather
these items head of time so they always are always available. For the items
that you do not have, send a copy of the Wish list on Page iii home with the
pupils. Parents may wish to contribute these items so you dont have to
purchase them.
3. General supplies
Most classrooms already have the basic supplies of scissors, glue and tape.
Since these supplies are usually readily available, they have been omitted from
the materials list for each activity.

4. Teacher preparation
Many of the activity directions ask to copy worksheets directly onto coloured
paper. Alternatively, copy the worksheet onto cardboard, cut it out and use as a
template to trace on to the paper. A parent volunteer or an older child may
assist with this.
a) Decide what the topic is.
b) Prepare the materials.
c) Guide and give the directions clearly.
These might include the following:
Art and task specific language: for example, cut, paste, paint,
draw, clay
Adjectives and descriptive language: for example, bright, dark,
colourful, red, blue, beautiful
Adverbs: for example, slowly, carefully
Instructional language and directions: for example, watch, look,
first, next, now you need to
Evaluative comments: for example, Do you like it? , What do
you think?, I think your Mummy will like it
a) Make sure to be by students side, in case if using any dangerous
equipment.
b) From experience, we should try the activity our self first. Make sure that a
resources book or course book activity isn't too complicated or time
consuming.

D. Examples of Arts and Crafts (Recycled)

1)Recycled CD Hippopotamus craft

Materials:
1. Old CD
2. Our free Printable
3. Magenta or purple felt
4. Black Felt
5. White Foam
6. Scissors
7. Tacky Glue
8. Black Marker
Steps :
1. Wipe the old CD clean of any dust or stains
2. Cut out the pieces from the template and use as stencils
3. Cut out the Nostrils from black felt using the stencil

4. Cut out the eyes from white foam.

5. Using black markers, draw the eye balls.
6. Cut out the teeth out of white foam
7. Cut ears & mouth from purple felt.
8. Using Tacky glue, paste the mouth at the center of the CD being careful to
cover the CD hole completely. In our video, I used Hot glue Gun to speed
it up. But tacky glue works just as well.
9. Now stick on the ears.
10. Next comes the Teeth. Lift the mouth slightly and place the teeth
underneath the purple felt snout
11. Next stick the nostrils as shown in the pic.
12. and finally the eyes.
13. You can also optionally attach a stick or a paper straw at the back to use it
as a prop.

2)Recycled CD Frog Craft

Materials:

construction paper or cardstock

pencil

scissors

glue

tape

black marker

Instructions:

1. Trace around the cd on green construction paper and then cut the circle
out. Glue the circle to the cd.
2. Trace around your childs hands and cut those out as well. Another fun
idea is to make green handprints and cut around those when they are dry.
3. Tape the hand cut-outs to the backside of the cd to make the frog legs and
feet. We placed ours with the thumbs pointed outwards.

4. Cut 2 eye shapes from white paper. Color in the black part of the eyes and
draw on the frogs mouth. Tape them to the backside of the cd opposite the
feet.

3) Recycled CD Peacock Craft

Materials:

Old CD

Buffalo papers

Origami papers

Colored feathers

Sequins

Googly eyes

Toothpicks

Clothespins

Scissors

Glue

Double tape

Hole maker

Pencil

Directions:
1) Cut the green and red origami paper become little circle. The green circle
is bigger than the red circle.
2) Glue the red circle to the green circle.
3) Glue the circles on top of the half CD.

4) Tape your feathers onto the back of the CD.

5) Trace your hand 3 times on your green buffalo paper and cut them out.
Also, cut a peacock body out of blue yellow buffalo paper
6) Then glue your handprints onto your feathers.

7) Googly eyes: make two white circles. Make two black circles, smaller than
the white. Glue the black circle on the white circle.
8) Make a beak with yellow paper.
9) Glue your peacock body onto the front of your CD, then glue on your
googly eyes and an yellow beak.
10) Cover 3 toothpicks with yellow paper.
11) Glue your 3 toothpicks onto the back of your peacock head
12) Glue the sequins around the wings. (hands shapes)

13) Finish your peacock by attaching the two clothespins to the bottom of your
CD.

E. Conclusion
Art and Craft is used so that the learners will interest in the material given by
the teacher. It is also used to improve the creativity of the learners.

F. References
Lewis, Sue. 2012. Classroom Art and Craft. USA: Creative Teaching Press
Unit 11 Creative arts and English learning: instructing, describing, discussing and
performing by TESS India.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/arts-crafts-young-learners
http://iheartcraftythings.com