Van Gogh for Children: Art, Emotions & Creative Expression
Van Gogh That Children Understand
This course explores the life and art of Vincent van Gogh through the lens of emotion, expression, and creativity. By connecting his artistic journey with children’s experiences, it opens space for exploring color, movement, and personal expression.
Through practical, real-life activities inspired by his work, participants gain tools to support children’s creativity, emotional development, and authentic artistic expression.
What’s Inside This Course
Course
- Live Zoom session – June 15, 18:00 (CEST)
- Course recording
Materials
- Digital picture book The Van Gogh Brothers
- Course materials
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- Certificate of Completion
- Optional participation in the project Letters to Theo
Two Content Blocks
Understanding Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Expression
An exploration of Vincent van Gogh’s life, artistic development, and emotional world. This part connects key moments of his life with the evolution of his style, offering a deeper understanding of art as a form of personal expression.
Bringing Van Gogh into Educational Practice
A practical approach to applying Van Gogh-inspired ideas in educational settings. Through real examples and activities, participants learn how to support children’s creativity, emotional expression, and artistic development.
Practical Activities from Real Educational Practice
Throughout the course, you’ll see how these ideas work with children — not as theory, but as lived practice in kindergarten and early primary settings.
We explore activities such as painting with thick tempera without water to feel the strength of each brush stroke, creating circular and rhythmic movements inspired by Van Gogh’s lines, and discovering contrast through complementary colours. Children experiment with different materials — pastel, charcoal, ink, collage, even painting on foil — to explore texture, movement, and expression in their own way.
You’ll also see how simple drawing exercises with quick, short strokes help develop a sense of rhythm and line, and how observing artworks or even taking a virtual museum visit can naturally lead into children’s own creative responses.
Each example is grounded in real work with children and can be easily adapted for your group or classroom.
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