The child is simply happy to be there, his outlook and experiences enriched by new sights, sounds, ambience. She smiles indulgently. No harm to it, of course, but that's mother love, not art education. Art education, from toddlers to teens and beyond, needs to be age-appropriate. Two is soon enough to start.
Art begins at home.
Get a tall stack of plain, white paper and paints and crayons,'' she said. Toddlers love shapes, colors, textures. The place at Art Connections that the littlest museum visitors like best is the toddler-friendly reading area. The little ones are entertained by the books there, by the textures that might include carpet, fake fur, sand, cloth, feathers - and by the colors of the space, the shapes and possibility of the blocks. The things are stashed on reachable shelves.