COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL creative and authentic art  65 Take Art Outdoors! Step two: Paper with playough scissors Art experiences outdoors are exciting and often bigger and better than those indoors. Anything you can do artistically inside, you can do outside, only bigger, better, and more! Children can express themselves freely with big movements and an ex- cess of materials. For adults, taking art outdoors means less worry about messy materials and cre- ating a messy room. Often materials such as paint can be easily washed off or hosed clean. When the teachers are more accepting of this form of art and more freedom is given to the children, the children become more apt to explore and create openly. Roller painting at the fence Step three: Using safety scissors Step four: Using rounded-tip scissors Watercolors, sunshine, and shadows COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL