Saito Academy

International Magic Society

Batik Drawing Corporation

Learners' levels

Suitable for primary and secondary school students

Course duration

Three years

Entry requirements

None

Certifying Authorities

Universal Edu-Link Academy, in collaboration with Saito Academy

Teacher/learner ratio

1:10

Course session

2 hours per week (to be allocated flexibly)

Medium of instruction

English

Number of levels

12

Duration of each level

Approx. 3 months

line building

Batik art work

Image building

Simple paper craft - paper collage, dry leaves etc..

Texture building

Magic clay

Coloring using color pencils

Drawing & Colouring Techniques

Coloring using oil pastels

Creating Effects

Using water based colors

Back-ground creation & many more..........

Poster Colors

Develop fine motor skills.

Rapid imaging techniques

To create anything out of any form.

Craft work- introducing to use objects like cotton, dry leaves and flowers etc help them to be more innovative.

Drawing skills- keeping geometry as basics we train create life study

Colouring techniques- one of the most important for a child to learn

Line rendering technique

Merging technique

Scraping technique.

Picture and Color training ;

Creative background training;

Geometrical structure training;

Lively special effect animals and plants drawing training;

Lively special effects 3 dimensional sceneries drawing training;

Commercial comic drawing training; and

Magic / handcraft training.

Our brain is divided into two hemispheres. Each hemisphere processes information differently. Reading, writing, arithmetic and science are all activities that are primarily controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain. This hemisphere is responsible for rational and analytical thought.

The right hemisphere of the brain controls imagination, visual and spatial perception. It is dominant in art, music, and physical movement.

Children learn best when both sides of their brains are stimulated. This occurs when the learning environment is both participatory and interactive. However, our modern classroom does have the participatory side but it is sorely lacking in interactivity. Therefore, sending children for art enrichment programme, such as DinoArt is an option to bring interactivity into children’s life.

When our brain develops, it will stimulates our IQ by increasing the maturity of our mentality, improves reasoning and organizational skills.

he right hemisphere stimulation is crucial to the development of the "whole child". Do not under estimate the importance of creativity, the ability to think abstractly (out of the box). The best thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs of our time have a healthy dose of right brain influence.

When creating an artistic work, whether it is a crayon drawing on a wall or a developed self-portrait, a child is learning to communicate visually. Maybe they are only drawing what happened that day (“she went to school in a car”), or maybe they are communicating something deeper (“I lost my turtle, Tubby”). Many times, children are only learning to experiment (“red paint and blue paint mixed together produce purple colour”) or learning how to properly use an art tool. However, the process of brain development during the thinking and delivering to their scribble, drawing, batik painting, or even clay are more than what we can see through rough eyes. Creativity in art is an important skill that is invaluable at school, work, and everyday life.

CQ is developed through cognitive, physical, and motivational. Where, cognitive includes the head, where, children learn about their own and other cultures and cultural diversity. Physical means, the body, where, children using their senses and adapt their movements and body language to blend in. Meanwhile, motivational means the emotions, where, by gaining rewards and strength from acceptance and success.

While children’s thinking skills, creativity, imagination, subconscious thinking skills, sensitivity and emotion, perceived ability, responsiveness, and performance ability improve, children will be able to explore and flexible in accommodating to something or any circumstances. They are able to restructure and link the conceived ideas. Children will also be able to have better understanding in visual, spatial, and perceptual tasks that are essential to the creative process. These factors increase their ability to focus on the task at hand which carries over into all areas of the child’s life.

Head: Multicultural art activities in DinoArt encourage the acceptance of others. Where, children can learn about other cultures in a safe and age-appropriate manner through the use of fun multicultural art activities. Whether it’s forming clay of Eiffel Tower or drawing the scenery of Hawaii beach, children can explore exciting faraway worlds together through engaging art.

Physical: Meanwhile, children will also improve their fine motor skill function. Whether children learning how to cut properly with scissors for the first time, learning how to draw, or attempting to control a paintbrush’s strokes on a drawing paper, a child can learn intricate fine motor skills through the art that are invaluable to future success.

Motivational: Where, in art, parents and teachers have to understand there is no right or wrong. In return, children should be praised for their effort since the beginning. Reason being, art are a way of self-expression, one’s creativity, and emotion. Find out the reason for their drawings, painting or even craft works. Why have they coloured the fish in pink and why is the lake black. In DinoArt, we do not restrict a child’s creativity and we do not limit their imagination. However, we will still give critique and comments on child’s work. However, we will do it in a positive and encouraging manner.

AQ is the most scientifically robust and widely used method in the world for measuring and strengthening human resilience. The AQ measures one’s ability to thrive during chaotic moments and make the most out of one’s IQ Where, AQ includes performance, productivity, innovation, agility, change, pace, problem-solving, determination, patience, optimism, engagement, morale, retention, energy, development, and leadership.

Creating art in DinoArt is a fine way for children to make choices and solve problems. Every step involves making a decision: what colour to use, how to make a line, what size to create a clay object. Where, for example, children want to recreate a happy memory visually. These thoughts may run through children’s head, “Should I use crayons, pencils, or magazine cut-outs? What kind of paper should I use? The glue is not working properly, what will work better? I ran out of purple colour, which two colours should I mix to get purple?” Art encourage basic and advanced problem-solving skills and the ability of children in adapting to changes in any circumstances.

In DinoArt, children are encouraged for self-expression, where, a child expresses his/her happiness through a cheerful painting of flowers and sunshine, a misunderstood child communicates his/her frustration through a series of morose drawings, or a young cancer patient paints his/her visions of heaven. Each example shows a child learning to portray visually what cannot be said through words or actions. Self-expression is an important human trait manifested in the art.

Children who may be having difficulties in other part of their life or school curriculum may find an expressive outlet through art. It’s a way to uncover talent that may not be seen otherwise. Even psychologists agree with this. Why? Because art are more than just drawing and colouring. Art are expressions of creativity. Art is a means of communicating ideas, feelings, and solutions in a way other than verbally or written.

Meanwhile, it is also an effective form of therapy for troubled youth. Many times, when dealing with a child that exhibited uncontrollable anger, many psychologists will invite the child to draw their feelings on a piece of paper. The child may scribble out his/her emotions in bold strokes of dark colour. Abused and neglected children often express their experiences through art. Art therapy also aids in dealing with grief, depression, and abandonment issues.

Where, children are trained to be a leader by stimulating their self-expression through performance, increase confidence that carries over other areas, brings a sense of individuality and the importance of individual style, and, becomes much more carefree and humorous.

As children are confidence and self-assure with themselves, they tend to live a better life compare to those that doubt their own abilities. Meanwhile, through DinoArt’s requirement of discipline in art, and, the added fun and colours in life eventually helps to release stress. This also leads to children’s interest in other artistic endeavours.

Everyone has natural skills and telents. And it is possible to radically improve and boost them, even if the child only have a little natural talent. Creativity enables children to try out and benefit from new ideas, options and alternatives in any future career. Children learn to do things in new ways and literally profiting from thinking “out of the box”.

Perseverance is regulary stated as the single most important quality for any successful business person, sportsman, professional or individual. In fact, most well-known breakthroughs in life have been attributed to perseverance alone. And fortunately, art improve everyone’s perseverance. Children learnt to keep trying until they finish any task. And if something goes wrong, they simply persist by trying new ways and means.

Similar to having perseverance, developing concentration is probably the second best quality any successful individual can have. Art will definately teach your child to focus on one specific task at hand and ignore other distractions. In short, concentrationw ill definitely improve.

Delaying gratification is an exceptionally important characteristic to reach meaningful long-term goals especially in future careers. Many studies have shown that lack of this characteristic continues even in adult life. People focus only on short term result and kaking it very difficult to reach meaningful long term goals. Therefore, without this quality, children will always want a result now.

Art teach social interaction when working and interacting in smaller groups. Communication among friends is also improved.

All art help children develop a sense of satisfaction on task completion. Not only is this ability important for scholastic performance, but you will also reap the benfits in adult life. Together with perseverance it eliminates giving up before a ask is completed or even being disracted to focus on other interesting things.

Many experts have emphatically stated that careful planning is the basis of all great achievements. Art also teaches children to follow a recipe or plan to completion, systematically and logically do things, and formulate new ideas and thoughts.

Experience teaches us that things do not always work out as planned. And most of us then find it hard to express our frustrations. But here is the most important part. Arts will surely go along way to teach expression of emotions. They learn to handle frustrations and to just keep on trying.

Many adults have great ideas and solutions to many problems. Yet, for fear of criticism few ever do anything with the ideas. This is sad and definitely avoidable. Parents and teachers can equip their children to effectively handle this problem. A great quality all art for children development is allowing and opening up for feedback, critique and comments. A vital, yet often lacking quality in those adults that never try out their ideas.

Arts and craft imporve children’s self-image. Finding success in the other qualities, it is inevitable that some sense of self-worth rubsoff. Frankly, it is a quality that will do anyone’s self image and confidence a world of good.

1. According to Dr. Maria Montessori: artistic activity is a form of reasoning, in which perceiving and thinking are indivisible intertwined. A person who paints, writes, composes, dances… thinks with his sense…Genuine art work requires organization which involves many and perhaps all of the cognitive operations known from theoretical thinking.

2. According to Elliot Eisner (Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University), there are 10 key lessons that art teach.

In a ten-year national study by Shirley Brice Health of Stanford University, it was discovered that young people who are involved in highly effective non-school art-based community programmes in under-resourced communities, in comparison with a national sample of students were:

Likely to score higher on their SAT college admission test scores if they have been involved for more than four years of after-school art study.