One setting took children’s artwork to another level by exhibiting it at a major gallery, discovers Annette Rawstrone

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'My artwork is going to be in the Scottish National Gallery, Mummy!’ declared one child from Greenhill Nursery in Edinburgh excitedly –after finding out that their artistic explorations would culminate in them holding a grand exhibition celebrating the children’s creativity.

Practitioners at the nursery, part of the Forbes nursery group, value the children’s creative play as a central role in their learning and development. They will often introduce the children to different artists while exploring a topic – such as paper collages of sea creatures by Henri Matisse when they were investigating ‘under the sea’ – and discuss the pictures, how they are created, what the children like or don’t like about them and how they make them feel.

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