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Children Getting Messy
by Guest- 12 replies
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Here's a question - I've been pondering on this because of my little girl, who is almost three, and her response to art activities. I recall from my teaching years (fourteen of them!) a handful of children who hated getting messy. One child in particular, I'll call him Tomas, wouldnt get his hands into anything remotely messy. I discovered that his mother was extremely houseproud, and had white carpets, white towels etc, so there was a reasonable explanation of why the little boy was almost phobic about mess. I taught a few others who were not keen on mess, but none as particular as Tomas. Wehad to work a very tight IEP with him to help him to get more comfortabl…
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