 Hi, I'm going to talk about how I teach young children how to look at art, any kind of art, a painting, a sculpture. But today it's a painting or a picture of a painting. And the first thing I do when I have young children is they just sit down in front of the picture and they just look at it. They don't talk, they don't touch it, they just look at the painting for about a minute and they make some observations. They tell them to use their imaginative brain to think about what they see. Then after about a minute I start asking them what do they see? And I first just say what do you see and they may say I see people. In this one they may say I see houses. Sometimes I ask them if they say I see a house and I would say well what makes you think it's a house? And they might say it has doors and windows and roofs. And then I could ask them, and then they'll say probably I see people and then I ask them what are the people doing? And then I can ask them and they might say they're dancing and I would say well what makes you think that they're dancing? Because I want the children to look at the painting and think what would make them think that way? Then after a while I ask them if they see shapes. They may see the circles in the trees or the lines in the trees. They could see rectangles in the houses. And then I also might ask them do you see any colors? Chances are they would see I see red and blue and yellow. And if they did say red I would say where do you see red? And they may say I see red in a dress, I see red in a house. The whole point of this exercise is to teach the children how to look at a painting or picture or sculpture and just make observations about what they see. I never tell them they're right or wrong, I just ask them what they see and ask them why they think that way. And that's how I teach children how to look at a piece of art.