A collaborative visual arts project in an Early Childhood Education setting. Pre-school children will work with 5 IADT art students using Visual Thinking Strategies to experience shape, geometry, colour and form. To foster the development of fundamental mark-making skills, hands-on manipulation, discovery and self-expression through art materials in the well-established Poppintree Early Childhood Centre, Ballymun, Dublin.

Large scale murals will be developed by the students from the collaborative workshops, enhancing the centre’s environment.

The project aims to encourage emergent artists’ interest in collaborative arts, provide experience of the practical issues of curriculum design and delivery of visual arts in similar settings.