Spotlight Studio LIVE! May 18-22

This week, we’re exploring Spotlight Studio and Childrens Theater Programming! By the end of the week, you’ll have acted it out with Vito, made your very own puppets, and practiced improv with animal movements! Join us as we explore the world of performance art through activities, stories, a virtual gallery, and lots of free resources!

Educational Background

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Performing arts provide a fun way for children to gain confidence, practice language skills and explore their world. Spotlight Studio provides playful experiences for children to engage in dramatic play by watching and interacting within a performance, storytelling and even puppet shows. Many positive developmental outcomes and skills are supported through artistic expression.

Social Emotional Development: Young children begin to express feelings and emotions at an early age as a way to communicate with others. As children mature and develop, they build skills in self-regulation and social interactions that continue to develop over time. Providing opportunities for a child to engage with positive social exchanges with others can foster self-confidence, a positive self-image, and healthy relationships with peers, family, and community members.

Language Development: Dramatic play provides opportunities for children to describe how they are feeling and to understand how to use language to communicate with others. Children can use puppets and other props to share feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, or excitement and pretend or role play situations and people they have observed in their environment.

Physical Development: Performing arts provide opportunities for children to engage their motor and coordination skills. Many activities begin with a physical warm-up to prepare the body for movement and acting out different characters. Throughout a performance, children learn to coordinate and control their movement around the stage space through different scenery, props, and other performers. Moving and carrying props requires fine and gross motor engagement as well. In musical theatre, children engage in dancing, singing, and acting, all in one performance.  

This week’s activities (all Facebook Live sessions at 10:30 AM):