Art is one of six areas of the Kurikulum za vrtce (Bahovec et al., 1999) and through it the child expresses his creativity, thoughts and feelings. Each of the artistic genres has its own specifics and expressive possibilities. Through fine art, the child gets to know different materials, where he also discovers their diverse properties. In the diploma thesis, we first presented fine arts in kindergarten and the first grade of primary school, limiting ourselves mainly to the field of sculpture. We presented three different types of sculpture materials, namely artificial, natural and waste. Each of them has properties that the child gets to know when handling them. We must provide the child with a variety of materials throughout the educational process. Below each type of material we have given some examples and described them. By using artificial materials, the child encounters different textures and malleable materials with which he can create sculptures. When using natural materials, we encourage children to observe the world around them and nature and thus draw inspiration from it and express themselves creatively through it, in our case with fine art. By using waste materials, the child learns that even material that has already served its original purpose can once again have the possibility of a new function. With this, we take care of children's respectful attitude towards the world around them. We have described how a child creates sculptures according to his age, namely from the first to the seventh year of age, which covers the preschool period and the first grade of primary school education.
In the empirical part of the thesis, we investigated the use of three different types of materials: artificial, natural and waste, and focused mainly on their use in sculpture. We were interested in how often sculptural content is present in the pedagogical process in kindergarten and school, which materials educators and teachers use more often, and whether they combine materials with each other. We were also interested in how they obtain the materials and what their opinion is about the reuse of sculptural materials.
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