Art’s Explorer #10: Community Arts Project

              Fun In The Sun Day!!

  For my community arts project, my group and I decided to create a Fun In The Sun Day that will help raise skin cancer awareness throughout schools in the Toronto District School Board. This will be an outdoor awareness day where children will get the chance to participate in different outdoor activities and get educated on the dangers of the sun and how to be sun smart this summer!!!

    I thought this would be a great “BIG idea” for schools and the greater community to get themselves and their children involved in sun safety. Children need to be encouraged from a young age to be sun smart. Our goal is to help educate children about the dangers of the sun and help prevent skin cancer.

 The organizations that will help us our promote Fun In The Sun Day will be the Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Dermatology Associations and Toronto District School Board.

   We will be using a variety of different ads to promote our “BIG idea” is shown throughout this blog...

   Facts/Prevention Tips in Sun Safety...

v  Keep children out of the sun between 11a.m and 4p.m.

v  Always use sunscreen especially on cloudy foggy days

v  Apply sunscreen 20minutes before going outdoors & REAPPLY FREQUENTLY

v  Always use sunscreen with the HIGHEST SPF (15+)

v  Children have the highest amount of sun exposure of any age group (National Skin Cancer Society, 2006)

v  An estimated 30,000 Ontarians will be diagnosed with skin cancer each year and about 2,000 of them with melanoma (Cancer Care, Ont., 2005)

v  1 in 7 children born today will develop skin cancer in their life time! (Canadian Dermatology Association)

After the presentation:

    I believe our presentation went well. I believe we got our point across about how important it is for children to start at a young age learning about being sun smart. I feel our ads were effective and helped promote our “BIG idea”.

Art word of the week: Shape

Two dimensional art  that has a length and width (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009). This term I believe is appropriate for this blog because throughout our ads we used a variety of shapes to help spread the message of our sun safety. From our one ad we used the shape of the sunscreen bottle and then chnaged the shape of its shadow a dinosaur . 

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J., E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6^th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.